I just realized how simple it is...about The Others (teabaggers, et al):

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While most are anti-intellectual and perfect targets for manipulation by Faux and Company, encouraging this lack of original thought process, I know some Limbaugh Republicans I would consider intelligent and informed (granted, they interpret facts as they choose to fit their world view).

So, why would people like that be a teabagger/Limbaugh Republican?

THEY NEED THE WORLD TO BE BLACK AND WHITE.

Quite literally.

They need to focus their hatred, frustration, self-loathing on one target. The real state of our country, our world, is entirely too complicated and thus distributes hatred and frustration, weakening the external hatred, making the self-hatred build.

No, they need to externalize this hatred in order to survive in this world. They need the "good guys" and "bad guys" to be very clear. The rules need to be very clear.

How perfect for them (and those "handling" them) to have all these people of color in positions of authority now. It's the end of the world as they know it, and they're terrified.

The Obama Administration is a perfect focus, a perfect target for their hatred, in spite of all the talk of taxes and such. That's really too complicated of a subject for them.

For most of them, I firmly believe it's about BLACK and WHITE.