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MrScorpio

(73,631 posts)
Sat Jun 24, 2017, 07:06 PM Jun 2017

I will never, in a million years, understand why wing nuts are such heartless bastards...

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They only care about themselves, and yet, I'm quite sure that after pointing out to them the fact that incompetent and corrupt GOPrs will throw people off of health care, off voting rolls and into a polluted and over-heated world, it will never occur to them why all of those are bad things.

They don't care. As a matter of fact, many of them delight in the suffering of others, so much so, that it's the only thing that a lot of them will ever care about. They laugh in the faces of people who are in obvious pain. People that they don't know, but for some reason, they choose to hold grudges against them, the vindictive bastards. It's mean and callous, that delighting in the suffering of others above all else. Only assholes would do something like that, so that's what I'll call them.

But yet, when it's time to pay the piper, because the very people that they've supported have stabbed THEM in the back... They expect someone to come to THEIR rescue... To care more about their pain than they've ever cared for anyone else's.

Do you know who acts like that? Children. Brats, specifically. Spoiled, rotten brats. Much like the spoiled, rotten brat that we currently have inhabiting the Oval Office. No wonder why he's their hero. Children only know what they think they know, and will not care about what they don't know. If it contradicts what their narrow minded beliefs and rationalization of their own assholism, you can be damned sure that their minds are closed. It's like telling them to eat their vegetables while they're screaming for two scoops of ice cream.

But these people are supposed to be adults, they're supposed to know better. But they don't. You can tell them, but they don't care. You can warn them, but they won't listen. You can offer them a hand when they're NOT in need, but they'll slap it away. You can ply them with facts and figures, but they will delude themselves into believing that all of it is 'fake news.' And once the tables are turned on them, as it will always happen, they will whine and moan and even blame the very people who tried their best to help and warn them in the first place for the very predicament that they themselves have worked so hard to fall into.

As progressives or liberals or whatever we call ourselves on the Left, we try to be kind, considerate and compassionate, even when we have to make sacrifices to do so. We choose to recognize the basic humanity of others, even when those others are not like ourselves. We choose to give others a helping hand and a leg up, because we all understand that we're actually connected to each other and it's best when we all can move up the ladder together, instead of a select few.

America is a nation of tremendous wealth, held in the hands of those select few... A select few who will always demand more wealth, no matter how much they have and always at the expense of those who are weaker and more powerless than they are. The select few looks at the rest of us and see people to be exploited without consequence. Wing nuts all look at them and see people to be admired, even when they're the ones being victimized with the rest of us, like a Colonel Sanders Fan Club whose membership is entirely made up of chickens.

And again, you can warn these wing nuts until you're blue in the face and they won't listen. So you know what I say? Fuck 'em. The rest of us have work to do and the last thing that we need to do is waste our precious time and energy of people who are hellbent on cutting off their own noses to spite their own faces.

Sure, they're going to whine when they finally realize that Trump and the GOPr Congress Critters have stabbed them in their collective backsides. And frankly, unless they change their ways and realize that they're not the only ones who are suffering and that they should have listened and worked to stop these tragedies from ever happening, I won't give a rat's ass how much they're complaining about it. These people have to stop thinking that everything is always about them... That's the sign. Once they stop believing that everything is always about them, and is actually about all of us, no matter who we are, then and only then will I stop not giving a rat's ass about those assholes.

So, until then, I'm gonna play this for them whenever they start blabbing:

The rest of us have work to do and won't have time to waste on spoiled, rotten adult children assholes who are too stupid, heartless, vindictive and bigoted for their own good...

Well, thanks for sticking with me through another one of my long-assed essays. I appreciated your time and patience while I blew off a little steam.

As always, take care, everyone and remember, FDT.

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I will never, in a million years, understand why wing nuts are such heartless bastards... (Original Post) MrScorpio Jun 2017 OP
Two words:money and testosterone. BigmanPigman Jun 2017 #1
The GOP is the party that hates people and is full of hatred Gothmog Jun 2017 #2
Welcome to authoritarianism TrogL Jun 2017 #3
Fuck them dalton99a Jun 2017 #4
And their ignorant minions who get all of their brainwashing propaganda from FOX and hate radio. Jack-o-Lantern Jun 2017 #5
Preach! sheshe2 Jun 2017 #6
They are lied to by right wing media propaganda. Goebbels used propaganda to much worse ends. american_ideals Jun 2017 #7
They come from families that think the same way. leftyladyfrommo Jun 2017 #8
Hatred Tiggeroshii Jun 2017 #9
Great essay AuntPatsy Jun 2017 #10
Heartless Bastards are a great band GusBob Jun 2017 #11
Some people are wired like bonobos DefenseLawyer Jun 2017 #12
Wingnuts are almost always the product of authoritarian households Turn CO Blue Jun 2017 #13
Outstanding and righteous. brer cat Jun 2017 #14

american_ideals

(613 posts)
7. They are lied to by right wing media propaganda. Goebbels used propaganda to much worse ends.
Sat Jun 24, 2017, 09:56 PM
Jun 2017

We know propaganda can have incredibly terrible consequences.
I'm not saying GOP extremists are like Nazis, but we know propaganda can persuade normal people - normal Germans - to do terrible, terrible things.

Right wing media propaganda is producing hate in America. We're far from 1930s Germany, but we need to stop Fox and right-wing radio before they further hurt America.

leftyladyfrommo

(18,868 posts)
8. They come from families that think the same way.
Sat Jun 24, 2017, 09:59 PM
Jun 2017

It just goes from one generation to the next.

It gets enforced in the crazy right wing churches they go to.

They get it drilled onto them every day of their lives.

 

DefenseLawyer

(11,101 posts)
12. Some people are wired like bonobos
Sat Jun 24, 2017, 10:23 PM
Jun 2017

Maternal, peaceful and communal. Some people are wired like chimpanzees: paternal, violent, territorial and savage.

Turn CO Blue

(4,221 posts)
13. Wingnuts are almost always the product of authoritarian households
Sat Jun 24, 2017, 11:50 PM
Jun 2017

and it takes a meaningful paradigm-shifting life event, or a determined (and rebellious) critical-thought mindset (the blacksheep archetype) or a long-term, very well-rounded Socratic education (Q&A type in humanities) to deprogram from that type of authoritarian brainwashing.

Deprogramming takes years and it's a journey.

The real hope for our democracy lies in getting non-voters engaged, getting minorities reinstated to the voter rolls and in legally challenging the gerry-mandering district by district or state by state.
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