Paul Krugman, an economist who recently wrote a NY Times article on our current economy and what is happening to the Upper, middle and lower classes in America, showed the statistics that middle class income has grown from 1979 to 2005 at 21% while the top 100th of 1% has grown at 480%. For his complete article, click here.
The process by which the politicians on the right are calling what is going on in Obama's jobs bill 'class warfare' is what therapists know as 'projection'. In other words, when what you see in yourself in not acceptable to you, you project it as being in someone else. Wikipedia defines it in a slightly more elaborated fashion. Click here.
For definitions for other defense mechanisms, click here.There are 12 of them you might wish to glance at as you will recognize several others being used freely in a variety of contexts. While I believe that more of them may be seen in the rigid 'right', no one is immune to their occasional use.
The process by which the politicians on the right are calling what is going on in Obama's jobs bill 'class warfare' is what therapists know as 'projection'. In other words, when what you see in yourself in not acceptable to you, you project it as being in someone else. Wikipedia defines it in a slightly more elaborated fashion. Click here.
For definitions for other defense mechanisms, click here.There are 12 of them you might wish to glance at as you will recognize several others being used freely in a variety of contexts. While I believe that more of them may be seen in the rigid 'right', no one is immune to their occasional use.
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