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Common Dreams reports
As President Donald Trump continues to behave bizarrely and erratically--attacking his own attorney general, launching into a political tirade during a speech to Boy Scouts, bringing his 11-year-old son into the burgeoning Russia controversy--a professional association of psychoanalysts is telling its members to drop the so-called Goldwater Rule and comment publicly on the president's state of mind if they find reason to do so.
The Goldwater Rule was formally included in the American Psychiatric Association's "Principles of Medical Ethics" following the 1964 presidential campaign, during which a magazine editor was sued for running an article in which mental health professionals gave their opinions on [Republican] presidential candidate Barry Goldwater's psychiatric state. The rule deems public comments by psychiatrists on the mental health of public officials without consent "unethical".
In a recent email to its 3,500 members, the American Psychoanalytic Association "told its members they should not feel bound by" the Goldwater Rule, which some have characterized as a "gag rule", STAT's Sharon Begley reports.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2017, @12:49PM (3 children)
C'mon, be fair. Every Democrat is a Hitler as well.
(Score: 2) by GlennC on Thursday July 27 2017, @01:32PM (2 children)
I think the "Democrats" are more like Mussolini. Gotta keep up the illusion of choice, don't you know.
Sorry folks...the world is bigger and more varied than you want it to be. Deal with it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2017, @05:12PM (1 child)
actually, if you switch those around you would be accurate. the dems are socialists and the repubs are fascists.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2017, @08:48PM
If that was true, and you'd ever been laid off from a job, you'd now likely be a working at a workplace where you are a worker-owner (and not just another voiceless exploited employee at a top-down Capitalist operation).
In 1985, Italy reworked its unemployment insurance law [google.com] such that a worker[1] who had been laid off by a boom-and-bust Capitalist operation could start his own worker-owned cooperative.
[1] Since then, unemployed people are able to take the insurance benefit in a lump sum.
It requires that that be applied to forming a co-op via a group of 10 or more unemployed workers organizing together.
If the Dumbocrats were actually Socialists, this would be a thing in the USA.
N.B. Bernie may like to -call- himself "socialist" but he's actually a Capitalist-friendly Imperialist who, uncharacteristic of USA politicians, simply recognizes the viability of the fiscal multiplier WRT wages.
(Henry Ford had this figured out over a century ago.)
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the repubs are fascists
That part is correct.
What is a fascist? How many fascists have we in the United States? How dangerous are they? -- Vice President Henry Wallace, 1944 [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [thomhartmann.com]
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