Reply #25: None of the above

[TabulaRasa]

He's an example of the well-established, psychological phenomenon known as projection ... people who loathe themselves, and locate everything they hate about themselves in the external world. They are usually megalomaniacal, hateful, and conspiracy theorists of the highest order, living in a fantasy world where everyone is out to get them and destroy all that is good and virtuous. Hitler was an example, J. Edgar Hoover, another.

Mark Crispin Miller contends that the entire "conservative"/Republican movement in this country is driven by this animus, down to the hard-core followers. And it seems like not a month goes by without additional confirmation of this theory. One month we have Bill O'Reilly on tape with a dildo up his ass, bragging about cheating on his wife with Thai hookers (possibly underage), during his wife's pregnancy. The next we get Mark Foley trying to diddle teenage boys. The cases just go on and on. The hatred, bitterness and constant anger are all the same. Just look at the posts at Free Republic. I'm guessing you'd have quite a few cases of people going back and forth between that site, and child porn (or anything else these psychos feel ashamed about, and rightfully so in that case).

Anyway, MCM has a terrifying quote about this situation (paraphrased badly by me): "When the object of your hatred is in the external world, you actually can locate it and destroy it. But when the object of your hatred is within yourself, the only solution is to destroy everyone and everything." And this is exactly what these people will do if they're not stopped. We can see the trend in their constant selection of new enemies ... from the Soviets, to Saddam, to Bill Clinton. Seriously, anyone who sees the devil in a hapless buffoon like Tom Daschle belongs in a straight-jacket. Anyway, I think it massively underestimates the danger they pose to call these people cynical, hypocrites, or to suggest that they are sincere Christians who have given into temptation.