Reply #94: Just pick almost any of their threads... [View All]

[No Exit]

and you'll always find a obligatory put-downs of "liberals".

I found your list very interesting and true; I think the most central of all the freeper characteristics you named is the "either/or" viewpoint. That is, the coin that is black on one side and white on the other. These people actively resist any middle ground. They don't like middle ground. They HATE to be uncertain what they think about something! I think uncertainty gives them anxiety, and that causes them pain, so to alleviate the pain, they feel compelled to take a side on EVERY issue, be it political or otherwise.

As someone up the thread said, fear drives them. Or, maybe not so much fear, but anxiety.

You know how Bush always "stays the course", even when almost the entire country is against what he is doing? I think the freepers like that. Because the certainty they get from watching Bush always "stay the course" is worth more to them than the possibility that Bush might actually come up with a correct course of action. It's almost like they don't care what he does, as long as he's firm and unbending about it. Certainty (even certainty of doom) is the cure for anxiety.