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Emotional reframing
Robert — (archived)

Or is it aphasia?

At the heart of all this is the way that you're trying to turn any criticism of your beloved sovereign into hatred. The phrase "Bush is a liar" is an assertion, an observation, and at this late date, a certainty. Does the polygraph hate the test subject when the needles swing into the red?

Your furious attempt to defend Bush by smearing his critics is certainly nothing new, and it's become as much a snooze as "Bush Derangement Syndrome". You smear the critics, and smear the large majority of Americans who believe that Bush is doing a terrible job.

All you really accomplish is to make yourself look totally irrational...and more than a little hypocritical. After all, you seem to be suffering the most intense emotional reaction, and the intensity with which you charge others with hatred is merely a reflection of that. You hate Bush's critics with a passion, and so you project on to them what you're feeling.

Can you say "mirror principle"?

You try to use it as a shield in the hope that its dazzling reflection will prevent people from seeing the hatred rotting away inside of you. But I see behind the mirror shield, and it's not pretty.

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