These right wing personalities truly need psychological analysis by psychologists, rather than political analysis by commentators. It really is an inadequate response to bother to dissect them on their politics. It really is a psychological game they are playing more than a political one. You can just hear it all just by listening to Levin's tone of voice. I think we grant them too much respect by addressing them with political arguments. We should go straight to discussing the possible psychological motivations that are producing this exaggerated chest beating behavior in them and just ignore their politics. The debate should be centered on their psychological health at all times. They use politics to exaggerate their puffed up egos.
The relish with which Levin throws down condemnations from on high suggests there is more being obtained from addressing political issues this savagely than their own perceived redemption and justification of their ideas. All this tough talk and debasing liberals is serving their egos more than their politics. Politics is just a means to that end and their listeners eat it up because it serves their egos too just like the ego of any sports fan is served through association to their team. They could be trash talking about one sports team over another and it would serve the same purpose. And of course many of the hosts as well as their listeners migrated from trash talking shows, like Howard Stern and the Morton Downey jr show, into shows like Bob Grant, Rush Limbaugh and Levin. It's a natural evolution. It's like wrestling but with words. It really doesn't matter what the subject or target is just as long as someone is getting pummeled.
The best way to confront them is to tell them straight out you know and they know it's not about politics for them. It's about the entertainment value they see in trash talk "politics." Don't let them control what the debate is about. It's about getting from political talk the same kind of low brow entertainment they got from wrestling or Howard Stern or subliminally violent shows like the Morton Downey Jr. show or the Court Shows or violent sports, etc.. And you can see the connection in action because these same people who listen to Levin and Laura Ingraham and so forth haven't let go of those old forms of entertainment either because they still serve the same purpose. Someone's getting ordered around or abused or diminished or is trash talking.
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