As a matter of principle I am loath to treat political behavior from a medical perspective. But, there comes a time when the evidence is so overwhelming that a medical framework is appropriate.
To wit, I have concluded that President Obama suffers from what a psychoanalyst might call “Compulsive State Aggrandizing Disorder” or CSAD for short. Though slow in arriving, this diagnosis was indisputable when I read about the president’s recent New York Times interview. In a nutshell, CSAD is a condition whereby everything is twisted so as to justify expanding government regardless of the risks, costs, or likelihood of success. The parallel is compulsive alcoholism or drug addiction — the addict refused to stop even when it is obvious that the addiction is the path to ruin.
As a matter of principle I am loath to treat political behavior from a medical perspective. But, there comes a time when the evidence is so overwhelming that a medical framework is appropriate.
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