Psychotic symbiosis

[TexasProgresive]

I ran accross this phrase in a novel Wednesday's Child by Peter Robinson. It struck a chord that it fits what is going on with a certain group of people. Regardless of the facts they are in a group session that reinforces their communal illness. They insist that bad times when the conservatives were in power did not happen and that even as things improve with a democrat in power they think things are worse. Here's a dialogue from the same novel that, while not a perfect analogy, does illustrate my point.

DCI Alan Banks is questioning a deplorable, Les Poole.

“I don’t have a job, Mr. Banks. You know what it’s like these days, all that unemployment and all.”

“Join the rest of us in the nineties, Les. Maggie’s gone. The three million unemployed are a thing of the past.”

[Sunny05]

1. Good analogy. nt