There's an awful lof of Tea-Baggers Posting on DU...

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1. Fetishization of the "center."

A lot of posters around here have this deep, longing need to be "fair" in all things, even if it means tipping themselves so far to the right that they make Barry Goldwater look like Mother Jones. I think it's related to whatever neurosis produces the "concern troll" impulse, honestly.

Basically they want to cling to the belief that the psychos and sociopaths on the right are really, truly rational people who are "just confused" or "we just don't understand their point of view" or whatever dewy-eyed, hand-wringing stuff that comes in that vein. It's hard to accept the notion that so many people really, honestly are emotionally defective.