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Dr. Sanity has written a number of posts psychoanalyzing the Left; all well worth reading. (Check out the Best Posts on her left sidebar.) This time she focuses on their obsessions with Vietnam and abortion rights:

Nevertheless, Roe vs. Wade became the template; the benchmark; the litmus test from which all those on the Left responded to issues in the Women’s movement. Even women who disagreed with this decision–and other related moral issues– were loudly ridiculed, demeaned and falsely labelled “outside the mainstream.”

A great deal of Leftist energy is invested in watchdogging, maintaining, protecting, and promoting the abortion agenda as the lynchpin in Women’s Rights. To them, it would be the end of the world as we know it if something should happen to take this sublime victory away. Anyone who disagrees is “taking women back to the dark ages.” They are obsessed because they cannot understand that Freedom means being free to agree or disagree with them. They demand that you agree with them, or else.

I have no need to go into any detail regarding their remarkably similar obsession with Vietnam; and how all military conflicts involving the US–in which we acted out of our own national interest, rather than as part of the UN–instantly (usually within days) become Vietnam-like “quagmires” and are examples of the immoral warmongering of (almost always) Republican presidents. To them the loss of any soldier (even voluntary rather than drafted ones) is the end of the world as we know it; and success in this most recent war in Iraq –or ANY war that the US engages in–diminishes their 1973 Vietnam victory.

And, of course, they are always on the lookout for a Watergate-like scandal that would bring down Bush and bring back those wonderful glory days when they felt omnipotent and validated. They are obsessed because they cannot see how a US military victory anywhere could ever be a victory for them. They only win, when Ammerica loses.

Like all obsessions, Abortion and Vietnam–the twin obsessions of the Left, are symptoms of extreme anxiety.

If either of their cherished victories are threatened, then their anxiety instantly escalates into hysteria, paranoia, or both.

For a little hysteria and paranoia, see this National Organization of Women statement on John Roberts:

If Roberts is confirmed as Chief Justice, Bush will have established right-wing leadership of the Court for another 30 years-a lifetime legacy of the Bush presidency that women and girls will have a lifetime to regret.

*Laugh!* Even funnier is the pop-up on NOW’s home page, showing how John Roberts is endorsed by such “extremists” as James Dobson. That one’s not going to work on me; I’ve read and enjoyed several of his books. I have his Love for a Lifetime, a before-you-get-married book; it’s pretty good, maybe not very deep, but it covers some practical stuff that you should think about before the wedding. Probably the NOW feminists’ teeth get set on edge just thinking about the part where he advise couples to not rely on the wife’s income, because she’s going to be the one having babies. Another good point of his is that the best time to start premarital counseling is before the engagement is announced; in case irreconcilable differences are uncovered in the counseling–much easier to break things off without the pressure of impending wedding plans and expectations. In any case, taking some time to prepare for the marriage, and not just the wedding, is a good idea. We started our premarital counseling about six months before our engagement. It was an excellent investment of time and effort, and probably, now that I think of it, we should spend part of our first anniversary celebration (coming soon!) reviewing it.