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Claire Oh Nette

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23. Ding ding ding
Fri Apr 2, 2021, 12:28 PM
Apr 2021

This is a large part of it. The guys I grew up with in the 80s went to work for their dads' businesses in the 90s building and renovating houses, remodeling and roofing houses, fixing and repairing plumbing in houses or buying and selling houses. Could care less about politics, but steeped in Reagan Mythology. Few voted before 2016, yet they were all constitutional law experts in 2018 and felt entitled to opine on what was and wasn't sexual assault. They boned up on virology and epidemiology, and were experts on the electoral college. These guys were C students at best, because they needed to make grades to play.

It goes back even further, I think, to their parents in the Vietnam era 1960s. The Hawks resented the fun the Doves were having. The free love/sexual revolution hippies and the pot smokers of the 60s became Democrats, and the up tight square ROTC types became Republicans.

THey're envious of how much greener the grass is on the other side. Rather than water their own grass, they'll prevent everyone else from having green grass at all.

Resentment JI7 Apr 2021 #1
"Life is fair because everyone complains it isn't." Bernie Segal MD PortTack Apr 2021 #2
More than anything else, they hate themselves above all... Wounded Bear Apr 2021 #3
That was my first thought. TwilightZone Apr 2021 #4
Endorphins . . . it's like first-person shooter games hatrack Apr 2021 #5
I never considered how hate might stimulate endorphins vlyons Apr 2021 #9
Part of it can be explained by the saying ScratchCat Apr 2021 #6
This is one of the central tenets of Chuck Palahniuk's "Fight Club"... Moostache Apr 2021 #7
Spot on description of my republican sister. pazzyanne Apr 2021 #8
This really encapsulated it for me gratuitous Apr 2021 #15
Thank you for sharing, gratuitous. pazzyanne Apr 2021 #16
and McConnell wants to sink Biden's infrastructure plan with every trick he knows vlyons Apr 2021 #19
They've been told its OK to think illogically. Listen and repeat back at first then slowly challenge uponit7771 Apr 2021 #29
They are followers. If you are a follower Polly Hennessey Apr 2021 #10
Oh so true. Wish I could expound and expand upon that further, but it wouldn't be prudent, lol. Celerity Apr 2021 #12
What I don't get is why they pride themselves on being jerks and assholes. Initech Apr 2021 #11
Their theme song, and for them it isn't satire, it's a celebration Celerity Apr 2021 #17
Right Wing Radio Claire Oh Nette Apr 2021 #13
YEP did not start overnight Cosmocat Apr 2021 #22
Ot's called malaise Apr 2021 #14
Because they are still pissed off.... Aviation Pro Apr 2021 #18
Ding ding ding Claire Oh Nette Apr 2021 #23
I contribute this ALL to the bluestarone Apr 2021 #20
Their egos of "what is white, is always right"... Omnipresent Apr 2021 #21
It has always been the party of selfishness unitedwethrive Apr 2021 #24
I think the problem is that your logic is backwards. hvn_nbr_2 Apr 2021 #25
This is true dwayneb Apr 2021 #28
Decades of right-wing media brainwashing, starting with Limpballs... SMC22307 Apr 2021 #26
All of the above and... dwayneb Apr 2021 #27
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