What is it in the American psyche that creates the right wing nut bag?

These motherfuckers have never been "right" about ANYTHING!

Name the subject matter, and they will find some way to take the worst possible position on it.

I'm not even going to try a list for this rant, because it make your head pop like a soap bubble. So let's just stipulate that I'm right about them.


Now OK, I'm going to admit that fear, hatred, stupidity, greediness, narcissism, misogyny, piety, hypocrisy, delusion, and just plain assholism constitutes the core of their key philosophical outlook. Plus, they feel that they have a God given right to be a stupid, fucking asshole...

What I can't figure out, is WHY in God's name, do perfectly sensible people like our President are willing to give them any kind of soundboard when it comes to figuring out what to do?

Right wing dipshits, if they have any useful purpose at all, should only be used as a gauge to determine that we're on the right track. As in, if they're against it, then we're on the RIGHT FUCKING TRACK! That's it!

None of their of their ideas warrant any Goddamned merit. They should be treated as such. A person with their brain and conscience engaged should have not have qualms about telling stupid fuckwads like right wingers to SHUT THE FUCK UP! Stop being so fucking nice to these stupid assholes... It does not stop them from being stupid assholes! Nothing on God's Green Earth will ever stop them from being stupid assholes (Not even an act of God).

I heard a rumor that the Dems are going to drop the bipartisan bullshit and start gov-ern-ing from the Ma-Jor-I-Ty!

I hope that this is true!

About FUCKING TIME!

i've been reading books by Dr. Daniel Amen of late... he theorizes that many personality issues are actually brain disorders/injuries.

wingnuts seem like their temporal lobes are damaged, along with some of the prefrontal cortex.

so this is very interesting that it could be related to brain injury.

When one thinks about the high number of traumatic incidents that can happen to a person, it's not a stretch at all to see a significant portion of the population behaving like we see Republicans behaving--lack of concern about anyone but themselves, my road or the highway, saying no to everything (like the Terrible Twos), and on and on.

And then, of course, the damage they cause perpetuates even more damage: for example, the Republican propensity for running the economy into the ground and the resulting economic depressions. The Great Depression was traumatic and very damaging to children who grew up during it.

Now they've run the economy into the ground again. Think of all the millions of children whose families have had to leave their homes because of foreclosure. Of course they will be damaged. And we will have another round of Republicans--damaged people, unleashed to damage another generation.


Cher

leaps to mind.

Fear that people are out to take what they deem is theirs. Fear that The Universe is somehow lacking and can't provide for the zillions of lifeforms that it currently is providing for. Fear that the limitations they see in themselves but are loathe to admit is somehow going to result in punishment. Fear that if they are not the dictators, that someone else will be the gentle master they loathe.

If Obama were to treat the RW crispy-critters as the idiots they are, the media would have a field day twisting it around. By the time they were finished they'd have given these--all too often not too bright themselves--swing voters enough reason to swing the other way in the next election cycle.

Do I agree with this? Not really. To me it seems the issue always boils down to the same thing. We have become victims in this country to our sensational, asinine, can't-air-a-real-honest-story-if-their-lives-depended-on-it, sorry excuse for a news media.

YMMV

in there somewhere, along with the propaganda machine. Blame Freud's nephew for some of that.....Edward L. Bernays. The father of modern public relations.

What he did was the epitome of anti-democracy.

The corporate interests and their allies in the government would have never become as powerful as they are today without his "work".

I think it began with WWII propaganda films starring the likes of John Wayne. Fine for that era, perhaps, but then we got into Vietnam and other wars for hegemony, like Iraq. But the "we're so good and always right" mindset prevailed.

We're living in the 2000s with a 1940s mentality...

On edit: And the Oligarchs have used this to their great advantage.

Taught to have faith in God, to believe that the flag is a potent symbol of greatness, to have faith in the military and American exceptionalism.......not much wonder.

It seems that we're not immune to that strategy in modern day America

Every society has their share of morons, those that are unable or unwilling to pay attention to what happens around them, and those who are simply anti-social assholes. But while most societies work to educate the ignorant & marginalize the haters, the corporatocracy in America works to narrow the views of the thug class & expand their influence - for the express purpose of sabotaging the democratic process.

Instead of standing firm for what he wants and going from there. Plus, corporations want to control the state of goods and services. I think it's a corruption of the American psyche since it involves people being bought in order to turn away from our gross national well being for their own private gain.

Being considered an intellectual is almost a slander in many circles. The close-minded attitude that rejects science and 'book-learnin' in favor of down home traditional values has been elevated to a badge of honor for some. When I was young, our family moved a lot and I attended a lot of schools in middle America, where, particularly in high school, I noticed that the smart kids were put down by the jocks and cheerleaders. I don't think other societies have evolved words like "nerd" and "geek" to make fun of students who like to study. When I went to high school in Europe for one year, I noticed that almost all the students in a class were heavily competing with each other to get the highest grades and their parents would give them hell if they failed (and most of the class had had to repeat at least one grade in their lives because of the strictness of the teachers). I think there's also the same mean-spirited attitude by some Americans towards people who show emotion and compassion for others, as they're called "tree huggers" or "bleeding hearts". I think the anti-intellectuals by far are mostly on the right. There's a feeling of mistrust and hatred by some in conservative middle American circles towards the two coasts and against the great colleges where free thinkers flourish: Berkley, Stanford, Caltech, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, MIT, etc. Intellectuals on the right, who are mainly concered with fiscal conservatism don't bother me as much (if they try to make sense, I'll listen to them although I usually disagree with them) as the social conservatives who seem to think there's a nobility in having a closed mind and in rejecting free and open discussion of all sides of an issue.

That is by and large how Americans are perceived by educated people from other nations.

I'd like to add something I have seen for a long time, having been raised in Europe and then working in various countries around the world before coming to the US of A. Roughly speaking, three different archetypes have been competing for power in this nation ever since the white Anglo-Saxon invasion.

1) the Puritans (religious dogmatists of all stripes)

2) the Cowboys (adventurers, entrepreneurs, warriors, banksters, gangsters)

3) the worker bees (this category includes everyone not driven by fanaticism and ruthless ambition to subjugate others to their will - from the janitor to our current president.)

YMMV

that is the origin of this. It is part of the culture.

Other elements, hate of the pointy ear intellectual, usually of Foreign Extraction... never mind that is not real, But if you are an intellectual you cannot be a real Murican.

The role of religion going back to Edwards and the First Great Revival...

I could go on...

But the violence is actually quite a large part of it, this is a violent country focused on the local, not the region or the nation. It is about the I, not the We...

and bad education

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