The Origin and Need of the Bouncy

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

I've pondered why the DUmbasses tell these stories of miraculous conversions of either their interlocutor of the bystanders at th grocery store check-out lane.

I believe it is centered on the ever-present ego of the Leftist: They're smarter than you and better than you. If you don't believe me, just ask them; they'll be happy to tell you.

But the Leftist is eternally rejected among freemen and for such egos to be rejected is devastating to them. For the most part I've considered the Bouncy to be a device to bolster flagging morale. So I'm starting to wonder if perhaps there is a deeper purpose.

We have to ask: if they're so smart why are their policies rejected and why don't more people adhere to their lunacy? For such intelligent and morally-upright people they seem to suffer from one series of political disasters followed by another. Even Obama has been a bitter disappointment on matters of civil liberties, the war and health care; presumably their core principles.

They will tell you the Main $tream Greedia is stacked against them. Laughable, I know, but that is the excuse offered as even the most casual reading of DU will reveal the substance of my assertion. They also claim that the real problem facing Obama -- the greatest political orator since Pericles -- is that he cannot get his message out. Fox News has simply drowned out the 536 other channels.

Looking at the data points in their most essential terms reveals the answer:

* Smarter than you

* but frustrated

* because they can't get their message out

Now, if we look at the nature of the Bouncy the purpose for these tall-tales becomes evident:

* DUmbass delivers a message

* It's salient genius cannot be denied

* DUmbass is triumphant

The Bouncy is not merely a mental salve to psychologically sustain them during periods of prolonged rejection; it is meant to validate the excuses for their rejection. If you claim you lose because you cannot reach the masses then all you need to do is have a conversion story to prove that once your message does get out none can refuse your brilliance.


Plausible?

[USA4ME]

This holds merit.  Like you, I know it's a way of them puffing out their chest and demonstrating how they're willing to take on "evil."  It also reinforces to them that if their elected representatives were to do the same, they wouldn't get run over all their time (from their POV).

I'd like to extend the discussion further.  A primitive who tells a bouncy knows it's a lie.  No doubt they see this as a way to rally the troops, and they take some comfort in believing they have done so.  But when they're by themselves, does it even bother them that it's a lie?  Wouldn't the fact that they did it cause them to wonder if others are doing it also?  If it happens often enough, and they recognize it's just a series of lies, doesn't it undermine the whole purpose of the bouncy to begin with?  Or maybe they're really that self deceived.

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[dandi]

All of that is true. Moonbats believe that inside every conservative there's a liberal waiting to come out. It's just a matter of "educating" them. Of course, they are the Enlightened Ones and so the task falls to them. Not for a moment do they stop to consider that others may just have different basic philosophy of the role of government in human lives.

Those uneducable few who refuse to convert are evil, greedy, and seek to enslave and kill. The Bouncy serves to reinforce the entire mythology, like twisted parables.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

I'd like to extend the discussion further.  A primitive who tells a bouncy knows it's a lie.  No doubt they see this as a way to rally the troops, and they take some comfort in believing they have done so.  But when they're by themselves, does it even bother them that it's a lie?  Wouldn't the fact that they did it cause them to wonder if others are doing it also?  If it happens often enough, and they recognize it's just a series of lies, doesn't it undermine the whole purpose of the bouncy to begin with?  Or maybe they're really that self deceived.

If a DUmbass knows they lie but then they see others lying along the same lines then they're more likely to believe their own lie has merit in essence if not substance. They won't question their fellow DUmbass because 1) they are part of the morally superior race and thus to be presumed truthful 2) the other lie is part of the same salve.

[Skul]

Gee, I thought it was a terminal case of inferiority and insecurity.
They only tell them to bolster their own pityful self-esteem.
I wish they'd save the band-width, and just a pill or something.

[USA4ME]

I also can't discount the fact that their "we're the smartest people on the planet" viewpoint creates the problem of who's the smartest in the room.  They all want to be, but it's not possible, so they settle for a congratulatory pat on the back from those they view as "among the smartest people on the planet."  Therefore "I'm recognized as being among the elite by those who I value as being close to, but not quite, my superior intelligence."  Bouncy's feed that ego.

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[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Gee, I thought it was a terminal case of inferiority and insecurity.
They only tell them to bolster their own pityful self-esteem.
I wish they'd save the band-width, and just a pill or something.

The Devil doesn't rage against Heaven because he imagines himself inferior to the Divine.

[Skul]

The Devil doesn't rage against Heaven because he imagines himself inferior to the Divine.

The devil has some power. They do not.

[Carl]

I look at it as an extension of the inner basis for why a person becomes a leftist.
Life and all in it is supposed to be about them.

A natural extension of this is the need for them to insert themself into every story that is causing the hysterical outrage of the day on the island.

It is their soul to have everything be about them.

[thundley4]

I look at it as an extension of the inner basis for why a person becomes a leftist.
Life and all in it is supposed to be about them.

A natural extension of this is the need for them to insert themself into every story that is causing the hysterical outrage of the day on the island.

It is their soul to have everything be about them.

Does a person become a leftist, or do they stay childlike and don't grow up?

Your description fits spoiled children equally well.

[Carl]

Does a person become a leftist, or do they stay childlike and don't grow up?

Your description fits spoiled children equally well.

They never mature,while young it is indeed all about their world because they have the mommy and daddy to lean on.
Once they reach adulthood in age that is what they seek from the world so look to government to give them what they want.

I guess to me they move from spoiled child to a leftist when they get to the place they can via ballot try to dictate their expectations.

[Skul]

They never mature,while young it is indeed all about their world because they have the mommy and daddy to lean on.
Once they reach adulthood in age that is what they seek from the world so look to government to give them what they want.

I guess to me they move from spoiled child to a leftist when they get to the place they can via ballot try to dictate their expectations.

Temper tantrum in the candy aisle, sort of thing.

[Ogre]

I think there is a lot of truth to your hypothesis.  

The DUmmies, their ideology and policies are all abject failures.

The bouncy provides them a false sense of relevancy.

[jukin]

The basis for your theory is spot on.

I would also add that the flavor of the bouncy is determined by the day's or week's current democrat party talking point. Not only are they insecure but also uncreative.

[Randy]

I also think the bouncy lie is self perpetuating. In the eho chamber the only one that knows it's a lie is the originator. He/She/It receives validation as a good democrat from all the rest eating up the lie. So to be a good democrat you have to spin your own lie or be less a democrat.

[Dori]

How old do you think they are?  The grandchildren of the womens lib movement?

[delilahmused]

If a DUmbass knows they lie but then they see others lying along the same lines then they're more likely to believe their own lie has merit in essence if not substance. They won't question their fellow DUmbass because 1) they are part of the morally superior race and thus to be presumed truthful 2) the other lie is part of the same salve.

I actually think they come to believe their lies. They tell them to themselves in their heads over and over again, before they even post them. Imagining possible bits of conversation, making sure each stereotype is true to type, each talking point illustrates their inherent brilliance (ironic because we can generally drive a MAC truck through their "perfect" comebacks), whether there will be a conversion or an adoring crowd of strangers clapping & marveling at their superiority. Whether this happy event will happen around a dinner table, supermarket checkout, parking lot, gas station, workplace or restaurant.

Of course, each scenario has it's own rules...a workplace often includes a boss or owner who is intellectually inferior to said DUmmie, despite that person's obvious success. The family dinners are angst filled with DUmmies often declaring they'll never again talk to said conservative...perhaps Christian, if they're looking for a double dollop of sympathy & understanding, family member (in laws are popular). Conversations at restaurants must always be overheard...these can be tricky because even the DUmmies sometimes think their fellows should mind their own business. After one has run the whole sordid tale of condescension & pathos through his/her/it's mind a few hundred times (though I bet more women tell bouncies than men) they become real. In a way they're like exit polls...the fantasy is more real than actual reality.

Cindie

[docstew]

I actually think they come to believe their lies. They tell them to themselves in their heads over and over again, before they even post them. Imagining possible bits of conversation, making sure each stereotype is true to type, each talking point illustrates their inherent brilliance (ironic because we can generally drive a MAC truck through their "perfect" comebacks), whether there will be a conversion or an adoring crowd of strangers clapping & marveling at their superiority. Whether this happy event will happen around a dinner table, supermarket checkout, parking lot, gas station, workplace or restaurant.

Of course, each scenario has it's own rules...a workplace often includes a boss or owner who is intellectually inferior to said DUmmie, despite that person's obvious success. The family dinners are angst filled with DUmmies often declaring they'll never again talk to said conservative...perhaps Christian, if they're looking for a double dollop of sympathy & understanding, family member (in laws are popular). Conversations at restaurants must always be overheard...these can be tricky because even the DUmmies sometimes think their fellows should mind their own business. After one has run the whole sordid tale of condescension & pathos through his/her/it's mind a few hundred times (though I bet more women tell bouncies than men) they become real. In a way they're like exit polls...the fantasy is more real than actual reality.

Cindie

If being a DUmmie wasn't mutually exclusive to being a good member of the military, that situation might happen. I've met plenty of people who are in positions senior to me and I don't know how they survive without someone reminding them to breathe.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Bumping for all the lurking DUmmies. 

[JohnnyReb]

Bumping for all the lurking DUmmies. 

Is this for a refresher course....or did they fail and are repeating the class?....what if some of the DUmmies are part American indian? Do they get affirmative action credits?