I have a theory about * voters, right wing nuts, freepers, fundies, etc.

They hate us for our freedoms. Seriously. We have shitloads of fun and they HATE IT.

Just take a look at the lounge versus whatever passes for this in freeperville. (I looked at it a few months ago, and unless it has changed dramatically, even their "fun" stuff is sick and twisted and scarier than hell.)

Just think about everyone you know who is a * voter versus a Kerry voter. Now think of them in terms of how much fun they have, how much of a sense of humor they have, how repressed they are or aren't, etc.

Does the theory generally work out?

It does here.

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Every non-Kerry voter I know is incredibly repressed.

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Agreed, 100% ... every * voter I know is either celibate or incredibly repressed / conflicted about ess-eee-exx.

who is a hard core * voter told me she'd never had the big O in her life. She's in her mid-40s. I didn't even believe her at first, then she described what her husband is like (drunken rambling) and that she doesn't know how to go solo and I thought "yeah, I DO believe her, poor woman."

their whole life -- their politics, religion, etc. -- is based on rage, anger, and retribution...

Get to the source of that rage, you got yourself a super payday.

Wear something HAZMAT.

tehy hate what this country stands for... they hate freedom, they hate what the founding fathers wanted

And it has nothing to do wtih fun... they truly believe this is a christian country... never mind the founding fathers knew better... that is what they hate

two for oh.

I'm even thinking about * voters that I only know through work and the theory STILL works out. Others will tell an absurd joke and they won't get it. Then when it's explained to them, they just say it's stupid.

Well, absurd, yes, but you'd have to have a sense of the absurd to get it.

Also, how many hardcore freepers go to art museums?

I'm really beginning to think I need to study this life form in more detail....

...which isn't really humor, at all. And, of course, when you don't find it funny, you're "politically correct" or have no sense of humor. I've never been much on sarcasm, but I think I'm beginning to find my inner bitch these days.

saying it AND the person listening think it's funny.

Then when they don't understand what you said, deliberately convolute your own argument and watch their heads spin.

It's TOO much fun!

I'm almost wishing I still had freepers in my life I could fuck with.

It's hard to have fun when you've got a great big stick up your ass, as most freepers, etc. do.

What perplexes them is that the stick isn't comfortable, they don't know how it got there, but, in a way that they find deeply disturbing, they like it, and secretly call it "Peaches."

No sense of humor in zealots. None. Zip. Nada.

And it kills them to think that somewhere someone is having fun or sex. Or - worse - both at the same time.

Is repressed and generally a drag to be around. Seriously, I know I'm biased but they really are. You are so right, social liberals have fun and they can't stand it. I'm not saying that there aren't Kerry voters like that too but the preponderance seem to go for Bush. No wonder that their campaign was largely based on fear-mongering and moralism. They also possess a victim mentality; someone must always be 'attacking' them in order for them to feel right with the world. That's why, despite the Presidential victory, gains in both houses of Congress, and the probability of control over the Supreme Court, there is still much caterwauling from the r/w media and the Christian fundies about the mean old elitist liberals looking down their noses at them. Boo hoo!

....... or in that places where their hearts would be if they actually had hearts, they know the election was a fraud. They know they're frauds. They know they're wrong.

That tends to bum them out, because, basically, they're still a carbon-based life form with just enough of the sentient about them to make them sort of human.

OK, I hate them.

And the election's not over. They suspect that, but they also suspect we're mocking them all the time.

Wait ...............

it's like they aren't happy without an enemy. (Or an enema?)

LMAO!

always chatty and fun. The Chimp Supporters were always HUGE CRABS. Man they always sucked.

I think repressed is probably the best word. Sex, fun, happiness, sort of goes against whatever they think of as righteous.

Makes me think of the Puritans.

I still think instead of having brought the "Protestant Work Ethic" which then became the "American Work Ethic," someone should have brought a play ethic along for the ride.

But then, I'm just one o' them crazy libural types.

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about bush voters?

It's fun!

Let's enjoy that crazy freedom of speech thing while we can!

that's why the stuffed codpiece.

You've really got to wonder about that. I found it HIGHLY disturbing. Could no one TELL him "um, it looks like you are strangling your balls, I think you got that thing on wrong?"

Oh nooooo.

I really liked progressives as people even if I didn't agree with their politics. There really is a huge difference.

What happened, if you don't mind me asking?

My bush voting former friends used to tell me there's no way they'd have a party and NOT invite me. I took that as a compliment.

And I'm sorry I can't do it justice tonight. But let's say that a lot of people thought I was not a typical evangelical, even though I was just as committed as any other.

I just wasn't as sure of myself as a lot of other people are, and tried to meet a variety of people and get different opinions. I actually split with some friends when I acquired a Catholic girlfriend, and that pretty much turned the tide. I am an atheist today but am still interested in the Bible and religious issues.

On the Reaganite stuff -- a lot of it was reading: Greider, Chomsky, Zinn, etc. I still have an MBA, but what passes for conservatism today is NOT good economics and in the long run not good business.

they are all boring stiff people. Plus from what I saw that one time I visited freepville, what a dull format.

Cheney visited Portland a couple of years ago to speak to a gathering of Young Republicans. Guess what their main social event was: target shooting.

There were demonstrators in downtown Portland at the same time, and as the demonstrations broke up, the younger members of the crowd brought out radios and began a spontaneous street dance.

I have trouble imaging freepers doing anything spontaneous except going berserk with automatic weapons.