Reply #22: How about the Stockholm Syndrome?

[madfloridian]

I sort of cringed when Dean said this on Hannity, but it bears a relation in a way. We were discussing it at Kos a little, and that tendency to need to please is most definitely there.

"The Politics of Victimization" should go down as an all time masterpiece.

We are afraid to discuss our stances, we feel must go along with the stances the other side advocates. That is what the co-chair I am writing right now in another Southern state really absolutely thinks.

She is afraid to cross them or they will punish her. She can't use those words, but that is what she is saying.