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In reply to the discussion: What I've learned about conservatives in the last few months [View all]Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Okay, disclaimer, she's not a conservative by any stripe, and doesn't get off on others' pain. However, she kind of fits the bill for what I'm talking about (sorry, mom!)
My mother has a terrible habit of self-sabotage. She always thinks the worst of people, is convinced everything's going to go wrong, and invents things to get stressed about. She'll take the smallest thing - her boyfriend calling later than she expected - and given enough time will turn it into this huge thing. She carries hatreds and grudges from her high school years still - she graduated in '73. She's psyched herself out of all sorts of good situations. If you let her, she'll sit and stew over 57 years of her life not going how she planned it, and she'll just get angrier and angrier with every passing minute.
Essentially, she can't be happy unless she's found some way to be miserable. I'm sure there's psychological terms for this, and I really wish I could get some help for her, but... well, trying to get a perpetually-angsting 57 year old woman in another state who also happens to be your mother to find a psychiatrist is certainly not easy at all.
I think there's something similar going on with the conservatives I'm talking about. They're just not happy unless they're angry. They like to lash out and see others hurt because it validates their anger and makes them feel better and powerful, without actually diminishing the anger.
These guys are Jake "the Muss" Heke.
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Self-sabotage, invented stress, paranoia, perpetual anger, and pleasure from misery. What the hell can you call that?