I wonder if some people are just so offended by beauty and happiness and love that they

[Atticus]

are driven to find a way to disrupt or destroy it?

Is there a well-manicured lawn with beautiful beds of flowers? Drive across it at night after a soaking rain, cutting deep ruts and flattening the blooms.

Is there a very successful new business with a new product making great profits for its owner? Start totally false rumors that the product has caused serious illness and deaths.

Is there an attractive successful couple that is liked and respected in the community? Post anonymous "if you really knew them" posts on the local discussion board mentioning drug abuse, affairs and pedophilia.

And, I suppose, if millions of us are breathing happy sighs of relief as we celebrate recent election results, some are compelled to be the mouse floating in the punch bowl.

[Walleye]

1. I guess some people just love to be hated.

She will get all kinds of love and care and stroking from Republicans now. It’s flat out prostitution, sorry

[Irish_Dem]

2. Yes some narcissist/sociopath abusers cannot stand to see anyone happy.

Or someone having something new or beautiful.

They have to ruin it.

[Ocelot II]

3. There will always be the Debby Downers who have to find something wrong

with anything, no matter what. I don't get the psychology but it happens every time.

[Iggo]

4. Don't wonder. That they are.

[Midnight Writer]

5. "If Momma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy!"

A co-worker sprung this saying on me years ago and it shocked me.

She told me if she was having a bad day, she made damn sure her husband and children had a bad day, too.

Sounds infantile and a formula for self-propagating misery to me.

Why would you want to hurt the people closest to you, the people you love?

I guess misery loves company.