Study links all Freepers to an unfulfilled need for love from Daddy.

dave123williams

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Fri Mar-18-05 06:56 PM
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Study links all Freepers to an unfulfilled need for love from Daddy.

It also shows a penchant in their ranks for blind faith, a need to follow, and a want to stick their noses where they don't belong.

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coloradodem2005

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Fri Mar-18-05 06:58 PM
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1. Amen!!

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MissMarple

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Fri Mar-18-05 07:03 PM
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2. Link, perchance?

:-)

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SmokingJacket

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Fri Mar-18-05 07:13 PM
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3. Hahaha, funny -- totally true among the poor freepers I know.

The three most freeperish people I know all had complete ASSHATS for fathers.

One hasn't talked to her father since 1970, one only ever had an abusive stepfather, and the other had a father who mocked her and never showed any affection.

Wild!

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susanna

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Fri Mar-18-05 07:56 PM
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7. You and me both, SmokingJacket

To the OP: that is a insightful observation.

More anecdotal evidence: I resolved my father issues by essentially telling him I would live my own life, thanks bunches (he was a seriously militaristic, controlling type) and I am the lone liberal kid. Dad and I get along fine if we don't talk politics, and he has chosen me to handle he and Mom's estate when the time comes, so he has evolved a certain kind of respect for me...somehow.

My two siblings still have serious problems with him way into their 30s, as both continue to bow to his dictates. Drum roll...one is a freeper and the other is awful close.

Weird!

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shanti

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Fri Mar-18-05 11:17 PM
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10. please

i'm definitely not a freeper and i don't have a good relationship with my own father. i know several others like me too.

DON'T CATEGORIZE!

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SmokingJacket

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Sat Mar-19-05 09:34 AM
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12. I didn't say ALL people who have bad dads are freepers...

and I'm sure that some freepers have lovely fathers.

Merely pointing out what seems like a tendency for poor fathering to produce children with major authority problems.

As it happens... my own dad IS a freeper. Figure that one out! ;-)

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hedda_foil

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Fri Mar-18-05 07:17 PM
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4. link please please please!!!

It certainly is in accord with the "strict father" model Lakoff has found to be the key to the whole right-wing mindset.

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dave123williams

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Fri Mar-18-05 10:31 PM
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8. I was unaware that there was an ACUTAL study!

Lakoff; I'll have to check that out...I was just making an observation...

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riverwalker

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Fri Mar-18-05 07:45 PM
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5. fascism makes them feel safe

so they like daddy leaders and a big daddy god (who seems to act more like a drunken, abusive step-dad, according to wingnuts)

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lastknowngood

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Fri Mar-18-05 07:46 PM
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6. and little weenies

n/t

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sharman

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Fri Mar-18-05 11:04 PM
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9. As I recall

the children of abusive, authoritarian parents become the same in their turn. Sort of like looking for a dog to kick when you've been abused.

This explains their strong affinity for all things controlling, punitive, brutal. And therefore, don't confuse them with facts. They willingly believe lies that allow them to channel these feelings politically. (Eg, women who get abortions are whores who should be jailed; any Arab country is fair game for attack, etc)

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libnnc

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Fri Mar-18-05 11:20 PM
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11. Makes sense to me.

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