http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x204273applegrove (1000+ posts) Mon Mar-01-10 11:48 PM
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I believe that underneath many teabaggers and fundies feel anxiety.
They can't quite identify why they feel anxiety but anyone who had ever had a psychopath mess with their lives would recognize it as the fear of all your fears (the fear of being small & being forced to grow down) that a psychopath will input into you before they make you do things by boxing you in with your anxieties so the only course of action is the one the psychopath wants (no taxes for rich people). And acting on this fear of being small makes them fall into the trap of supporting legislation for rich people (no government, no taxes, no empathy for others (anti gay marriage), etc. ). Because when you feel such anxiety you have to act. So they march for their false leaders the GOP and neocons. And they keep taking action because that is what anxiety requires of you. So they get smaller and smaller and the anxiety provoked in them is doubled up. And they lash out at the elites' enemies as they are directed to. And they hate. And they never get relief (why didn't the bush white house do anything about abortion when it had control of congress).And they loose their place in the world (US middle class is shrinking). And here they are. Marching for the rich elites who don't want to pay taxes. And the teabaggers and christian right are not fighting for the middle class....which is actually their base.
That apple juice has us pegged !
scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Mon Mar-01-10 11:57 PM
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1. They're feeling "anxiety" because a black man sits in the Oval Office
No need for more analysis than that.
That same old song ? Come on now, you can do better. Say SOCIALIST.
Greenpeach (364 posts) Tue Mar-02-10 12:25 AM
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5. You're so right. That is it.
They don't need any rationale, it's all hogwash. Does anyone really think they care about government spending, or any of the trumped up reasons they spew? It's all about "getting America back" to the way they liked it...with Jim Crow and lynchings and sh..
Peachy sounds racist.
onehandle (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-02-10 12:32 AM
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6. Yep. nt
Nope. nt
Mojorabbit (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-02-10 04:55 AM
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8. My BIL really believes Obama is a socialist
and is convinced we are going to lose our Democracy.
Your BIL sounds like a smart and wise man. You should listen to him.
Quantess (1000+ posts) Mon Mar-01-10 11:58 PM
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2. Anxiety is extremely common, and it has little to do with political bent.
You are onto something when you say that teabaggers are tormented by anxiety, but so are the majority of Americans struggling to make ends meet, or for their lack of health coverage, or anxiety about their childrens' future, or for whatever reason.
The USA has diminished, mostly thanks to Bush, but do we ever hear teabaggers addressing any of the damage their boy Bush ever did?
Maybe a Black Man in the White House is enough to cause anxiety.
My neighbor is black. I have no anxiety towards him. Unlike our President, he isn't trying to put his hand in my pocket and rob me blind so your lazy a** can play at the DUmp all day either.
applegrove (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-02-10 12:02 AM
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3. You are right that the GOP policies on the 80s, 90s and 00 have caused anxiety in people.
Edited on Tue Mar-02-10 12:03 AM by applegrove
Part of a strategy to make people afraid of being separated from the herd and being forced to live in a trailor park is the attack on the middle class.
WHAT ?
Quantess (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-02-10 12:16 AM
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4. Look, anxiety is part of American life! Eat or be eaten, beat or be beaten.
But in the past decade or two, the anxiety among the working class and middle classes has manifested into something like a chained dog who chews sores onto his own leg, out of frustration.
And, absolutely, what is left of the middle class has terrible anxiety these days. There isn't much left of the "middle class". What used to be considered working class is now considered middle class.
And why is that Quantess ? Because we the people are being taxed to death that's why. The government need or want as I see it, is to take from the people and that is forcing the hurt. You can't spend your way out DUmmy. You have to CUT your way out.
You people don't get it do you ? It has nothing to do with race. NOTHING. It has to do with earning and keeping more of what you WORKED for.
But that's not something you understand because you think you're going to get something out of the deal.
You won't. You'll get the finger and still be in your miserable state of mind.
There ain't no hope coming. There ain't no change coming. No frosted lucky charms.
Obama is in this for Obama. Watch his harlem shuffle next time he's walking to the podium. Listen to his Richard Pryor imitation of a white man, watch his eyes. He doesn't care about anyone but himself. He's a pretend President acting stupid.
Oh, I guess I just made a watch list somewhere.
