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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-14-05 01:36 PM
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Why do the Republicans hate our way of life?
This is the question that needs to be asked of all Rs? Why are R legislators and the administration hell bent on destroying our way of life and our freedoms? Let us ask that of them. CSPAN callers, relatives, random freepers, poltiicians. Ask them why they hate our way of life.
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-14-05 01:39 PM
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1. Trying to understand the Neocons' reasoning is impossible
They want a stupid base that worships flags, NASCAR, and never travels but consumes ridiculous amounts and an elite group of corporate and government officials controlling the real situation.

Very 1984 but in a sense that no amateur could ever make up.
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sam sarrha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-14-05 01:49 PM
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2. this quote by the Dalai Lama explains a lot of it...
'A negative thought continues and increases exponentially until replaced by a positive thought, however the positive thought must be cultivated'.

they also get trapped in an Apriori Loop where any input results in the same conclusion... that is because in the Apripri Loop... the conclusion comes first and the premise follows. this overview results in a LOT of problems.. the problems are projected onto the scape goat, the liberals, queers, jews, short people, black people, ANYONE who tries to explain this to them.. Rush Limpdick said once early in his career,'... you may not agree with me, but if you keep listening to me you will start seeing it like i do. does what i describe sound like an explanation for the freeper's rabid stupidity

this is a state of perceptual dysfunction and i consider it a mental illness. All the inmates at the Juvenile prison i worked at were paroled in 30 to 60 days after i taught them to meditate.
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rpgamerd00d Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-14-05 01:58 PM
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3. In all honesty, its because they are weak
It takes a strong person to compliment someone, but a weak person to insult them.

When someone insults, degrades or otherwise trashes someone elses race, beliefs, or point of view, they are artificially propping themselves up, making them feel better about themselves. They do this because they are filled with self-doubt and self-loathing. Until you hit bottom, you can't really understand what its like to feel that way about yourself. And believe me, you'll do anything to make yourself feel better, including denegrate anyone and everyone you decide to blame for your own shortcomings.

The short answer is: because they are little people, with narrow minds and closed emotions.

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RandomKoolzip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-14-05 02:10 PM
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4. Many people are republicans because they have odd beliefs about
the American tax codes; they think that something like 60% or something of their every paycheck goes directly to some black woman with six kids on welfare. I don't know why anyone would believe this nonsense, but they have schmucks like Limbaugh on the radio to make this outrageous claims, which go largely undisputed.

Plus, many rank-and-file republican voters (especially rural voters) get all their information inputs from two sources: TV and the church. They watch TV and see sex and profanity and irony and violence and sin and thousands of confusing messages they can't translate. So they turn to the church for guidance, and the church tells them that America and the Christian Church are the same thing; that everyone on television is a sinner; that the world they see on TV, which has no similarities to the one outside their doors, accurately depicts the life of most Americans, especially in urban areas, after the civil rights struggles of the 60's. They pine for a TV worldview more like the one they remember from the 50's and sixties, where there was Ozzie and Harriet and Green Acres and Bewitched and The Brady Bunch and myriad other shows depicting an irony-free, clean-living, affluent, all-caucasian world. These types can't differentiate between the real world and the world they see on television, so they naturally assume that the world has gone BATSHIT NUTS.

In other words, republicans are like recently caged zoo anmials, easily scared by bright lights and loud noises and honesty.
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leeroysphitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-14-05 02:16 PM
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5. You mean the AMERICAN way of life?
I guess they pine for the simpler less complicated times of 1930's Germany...
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EC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-14-05 02:29 PM
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6. And why, oh, why do they want to keep making laws and
amendments to protect us from things that aren't there or will never happen? I thought they wanted less government?

(i.e. gay marriage ruining hetro marriage)
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sweetheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-14-05 02:42 PM
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7. They are afraid of unknown experiences
They are afraid of big cities, complex social interactions and chaotic circumstances.

What is is their ultimate fear:

In a small town rural america, revitalized towns in montana are laying claim to their
radical gay and cannabis liberalization that has led to the economic boom. And while
the towns have grown in size by two to 3 times over the past year, the godfearing original
residents are terrified of gay people kissing in the street, gay people making love in the
neighborhood trees, drugs users walking around openly addicted to heroin, women showing their
sexuality, liberally, that all the rural men who are bored with their wives are all bulging
erect for the young girlies, and all because of liberalism. Many of the townspersons openly
carry on multiple sexual affairs in public, and there are even drug taking classes for youths
at the local elementary school. And everywhere in that community, everyone is wealthy, crime
rates are low, tolerance levels high, and an economic boom.
;-)

What worse nightmare, perhaps, that some of those happy peaceniks are now reformed terrorists
who've put down their guns... ?
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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-14-05 02:46 PM
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8. They all hate themselves.
Their lives aren't good enough. Their sex isn't good enough. Their friends aren't good enough. And their children hate them too.
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MODemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-14-05 03:33 PM
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9. It's possibly jealousy more so than hate
Most of the Right wingers are very controlling people, and would have everyone believe that what they do or say is perfect; when we don't adhere to that, it makes them angry. That's a big problem when one thinks their way is the right way or no way. Most of them are just plain disgusting, selfish and have a child-like mentality. I wouldn't trade my way of life for any of theirs that I've ever seen.

:crazy: :silly: :boring:
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