Why is the right-wing still so bitter?

[Pushed To The Left]

They've got control over all branches of government at this point, yet they seem so angry and bitter. They're still complaining about how unfair the media is to them and how the ACLU is so awful and that sort of a thing. How can they have such a victim mentality when they are on top? It just makes me look that much more forward to the day when the pendulum swings back and progressives are in control again. Then they'll really have something to cry about!

[SaintAnne]

1. never happy

damn republicans are never happy unless they have someone to push around

[Cerridwen]

2. I honestly believe that their particular brand of religion

attracts those who aren't happy unless they're miserable.

Just my opinion, of course.

[AuntPatsy]

3. Well, according to Hannity which I heard him say with my own

ears a few months ago, that bunch will not be happy until all Liberals are wiped off the face of the earth. I think he was being honest for once and it would explain the anger they still show...

[AnIndependentTexan]

4. Freedom from happiness is on the march!

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. Because, as they have all heard all their lives,

cheaters never prosper.

When you win cheating at solitaire do you feel as good as when you win legitimately? Of course not.

They are learning, as all grownups do, that winning isn't everything. They can't feel good, or be gracious in the winning, because they know, deep inside, that they didn't.

[sangh0]

6. Because they're getting just as screwed as the rest of us

they just don't realize they're electing the fornicators

[JI7]

11. that is so true

they vote against their own interests and the more they "win" when it comes to elections, the worse their overall life seems to get , especially in economic ways.

but they can't seem to make the connection that what they voted for is what is making things worse all the time.

[The Backlash Cometh]

7. It's the martyr syndrome.

Part of their religion is to feel persecuted. They don't realize that they'be become the merchants at the temple.

[missouri dem]

8. Penis envy.

[stepnw1f]

9. Guilt Projection

Blame the victim mentality. This is evident in abusive relationships to.

examples: "They made me do it", "They deserved it", "Stop complaining".

Who's whinning, right?

I've seen this first hand. It's typical and illustrates very well that they commited fraud and know it. They did not win this election the honest way.

[NuttyFluffers]

10. because it is through hate and anger that unites them

otherwise they'd fight each other because a lot of them are thoroughly incompatible. the unifying cause is utter hate and anger. without it and the unity it creates they'd just fade away like pathetic things that they are.

[SaintAnne]

13. hate

and anger, I get a lot of that vibe from republicans too, and grumbles, and "i don't want to argue with you...(Cuz I know I'm right)" and "lets gloat about this, because we must must must" and "fuck you"
have you seen werenotsorry.com the most depressing hateful and stupid bunch of clowns I have ever witnessed

[Cadence]

15. I concur.

I also like your username. :)

[devilgrrl]

12. Because conservatism caters to the basest elements of society

It's their nature to be greedy, bitter, mean-spirited and angry, they must be in control of everything.

[WLKjr]

14. Because they can't get enough

It's never enough with these people, excuse me, I mean domninionistic christian white supremist facist fucks.

[NewJeffCT]

16. they're staying on message

They're trying to stay focused so they'll keep the same arguments out there for 2006, 2008 & beyond. If all of a sudden, they stopped crying wolf over "librul media, librul media", people might suddenly wake up & start realizing how far right most of the mainstream media really is and how unquestioning they have been of the likes of Reagan & Bush.

[FM Arouet666]

17. It is about hate

They hate gays, hate women, hate liberals, hate the rest of the world. Hating all the time makes them very bitter. They can never be happy, they must always have a foe to take up arms against.

Interesting, though, how republican like to describe liberals as angry and mean spirited. I guess that would be called projection. Ascribing to others characteristics which are really contained within yourself. Sorry, my wife is a psychiatrist and I hear that I project all the time. :evilgrin:

[SaintAnne]

19. everything explained

projection? uh? cool... now everything is starting to make sense. and isn't it easier to hate someone than to love someone, or at least be nice to someone. Yep, it is it is, so sad so sad... but projection... makes sense, it sure does

[Robbien]

18. Because Rush, Hannity and Faux tell them to be angry

The GOP needs to keep their followers busy being angry at liberals so that the bushbots will not be paying attention to how much the GOP leaders are taking away from the everyday American.

[lcordero]

20. here is why:

because they know that they are the new welfare queens.

because they are ashamed of themselves because they are so hypocritical.

[Minstrel Boy]

21. Did Hitler ever say "There, now I'm satisfied"?

The more power he had, the greater his rage against the Jews.

And besides, despite the control it enjoys, the Right still has much of the 20th Century to unmake.

[Wapsie B]

22. We're still breathing.

That and the fact that they need to be ever on guard against the evils of liberalism. They cannot ever let themselves relax and be happy. Deep-seated anger is in their psyches. Never stop banging the war drums. Don't give anyone time to think, or time to question.

They also know that they will not be able to take this country back to the 50's, although they're sure gonna try. Half of this country voted for Kerry. Too many people are aware of what's going on, aware that we're getting screwed. RWingers don't like it when people pay attention. Anything other than blind obedience makes them angry.
Even calling it blind obedience gets them riled. They see themselves as deep thinkers.

[NVMojo]

23. because they know there is a large number of us standing our ground

and not buying or drinking their sick koolaid. As long as we don't convert, we are a major threat to defecting Repukes who wake up and smell the coffee when the koolaid wears off...

[booley]

24. becuase that's how they explain thier failures.

one reason for thier constant anger anyway.

You see, when the right wing's economic policies fail to spark the economy, it's becuase of the democrats in congress and Bill Clinton.

and when mandatory sentencing and guns for everyone doesn't stop crime or vice, it's becuase of the 60s

and when all the censoring and pretending that gay peopel don't exist doesn't stop vice or gay people from existing, it's becuase of the hollywood elite.

Failure in iraq? it's the protesters.

Teenage daughters getting pregnant or an STD? Femnists.

The world hates our guts? The French.

Becuase God knows it surely can't be becuase the conservative ideology is fundementally flawed.

[Comadreja]

25. They haven't gotten to use their assault weapons yet

Once they get the go-ahead to start shooting people, their rage will melt and they'll mellow right down.

[The Magistrate]

26. Because Reality Never Lives Up To Fantasy, Sir

It is like a fellow whose mind is prey of some detailed sexual fantasy he has longed to realize for years; when he manages to get someone to consent to do it, it is never quite what he anticipated, and so he becomes surly, feels cheated, and redoubles his search for the perfect instance, never realizing perfection is impossible.

These people expect that something will change and make them feel powerful and in control, that society will suddenly come to reflect their dreams and desires. But it will not. They will remain, for the most part, mere powerless peons, their dreams unfulfilled, their sense life has passed them by unaussaged.

"You can't cut the throat of every cocksucker whose character it would improve."

[Selwynn]

27. They think they would never be happy until we are eliminated...

..but the truth is, they would then just turn on themselves...they can never be happy, because every individual is too busy pointing a finger at everyone else. Every time then take down a target, they just see another one...

[Philostopher]

28. Simple answer?

And it doesn't in any way argue against any of the other answers already in this thread -- they are bullies. Their personal, religious and political philosophies rely on their being given carte blanche to bully everybody who doesn't agree with them.

Bullies in school were generally kids who'd been beaten up at home by somebody stronger than they were -- right-wingnuts are acting out their aggression because they feel disinvested in the political process and helpless to control their lives. As with seven-year-old playground bullies, they have a bloodlust that can only be temporarily ameliorated by beating up on someone they believe to be inferior to them. Usually, they pick on kids who are smarter or more creative than they are -- but who are physically weaker, or somehow in disfavor.

On edit -- for the most part, conservatives are Luddites. They only learn enough about computers, for instance, to serve their purposes. Most liberals like the concept of a computer, and often they learn to use it to the degree it can serve them, even if they don't have a pressing need for its function, because they have something conservatives don't. Intellectual curiosity. This is one facet of the thing a bully envies in the person s/he bullies -- the ability to question things. They aren't innovative enough, or bright enough, or brave enough to question anything, and they feel weak when they come up against someone else who can and does.

And, no -- I don't believe it will be ever be enough for them simply to 'win' elections. What I don't think they realize is that if they were to drive us all out of the country or underground, somebody stronger than them would decide it was their turn to have the snot beat out of them and get gravel ground into their foreheads. But they'll find out what it's like, one way or another.

[AgadorSparticus]

29. it takes alot of anger and bitterness to promote so much hate.

you're asking for them to be happy or content. no can do. if they were either, they sure as hell wouldn't succumb to a cheap, exploitative ideology as neoconservatism.

[azoth]

30. I think all that anger and hate is about fear.

I don't think that the religious right "hates" gays - they fear them. My inlaws are fundies and they sent my dh and me packets of the most vile, hate-filled propaganda bullshit for the entirety of this election cycle. An awful lot of it dealt with some bizarre essential fear that if gays are allowed to marry and rear children, they will "ruin" those children. And I am even sorrier to say that many of those pieces of trash dealt directly with some even more bizarre assertions that being homosexual equals being a pedophile. So - the religious part of the right *fears* gays, imo. That is where all that hate and bitterness stems.

I don't think the right "hates" the ACLU either, really. They're scared shitless that all the bullshit cronyism and nepotism and racism that's been running companies and government for years is going to have to answer some hard questions and make some hard changes. Bitter? Sure - but it's all about fear. Fear of recrimination, possible legal issues, heck - even how about basic fear that their own ass might be on the line and somebody else's might be qualified to do their job.

I think they fear change. And the right is so incredibly narrow-minded and narrow-hearted that they *should* fear change. They *should* fear liberals, because when you're talking about things like Equality, Justice, and Liberty you cannot be exclusionary. And that is what the right is all the fuck about - exclusions, compartments, partitions...and the exploitation of those same things for their *own* nastygreedybastard gain.

Sorry...I'm ranting. I'll stop now.

[Carolab]

31. GREEDY PIGS

that's why. ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME 24/7

[PlanetBev]

32. They cannot tolerate dissent.

All long as we are around, they are reminded of their failure to neutralize us. The thought that there are human beings who cannot be persuaded to fall into lockstep with them is unbearable. They will never be happy because we will never lay down like beaten dogs.

Their a bunch of fucking infants who scream insatiably to have their own way. They are the Yang who want to eliminate the Yin. Ain't never, ever gonna happen.