Why does the GOP/right wing hate Gore so much?

[ProfessorPlum]

I've recently been reading Frederick Douglass' autobiography, and even though I realized that slavery was terribly brutal, actually reading about the bloody whippings and savage beatings that slaveowners regularly - sometimes as often as weekly or more - inflicted on their slaves was really shocking. It got me to thinking about why people with power would be so brutal to a piece of their own "property", especially valuable property, and why slaveowners in general were/have been so resistant to change in their attitudes and so filled with hate.

It occurs to me that they knew, deep down, that slaves were human beings, too, not animals, and not property, and that what they were doing, they were doing to full human beings. They knew it was wrong. And so being slaveowners made them feel terrible - guilty, full of self-hatred - and they lashed out at the people that made them feel that way. It is cruelly ironic that the people being victimized then had to pay the price doubly for their victimizer's self-hatred.

The right wing's incendiary madness and hatred of Gore comes from the same place. They know Gore won the 2000 election, and furthermore, they know he both deserved to win and would have been a much better president. In their greed, they took what was not theirs, but they know they are wrong - their self-loathing and guilt comes out in hatred towards the very person who makes them feel so bad about themselves - Gore.

[asthmaticeog]

1. This would have been a perfectly fine analysis without bringing slavery into it.

It's a pretty offensive comparison. Strong, vocal distaste for a political opponent = slavery. OK, then.

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[ProfessorPlum]

6. You've missed the entire point

Way to go.

[asthmaticeog]

8. You have a poor way of making your point.

Way to go.

I saw the personal insult, by the way. It really only underscores my point. Nice chattin' with you.

[ProfessorPlum]

12. I intended you to see it.

Mentioning that slavery actually occured and brought out some really frightening behavior in people shouldn't be offensive.

[RaleighNCDUer]

7. Nonsense.

That would be true if you were talking about the Hillary/Obama rivalry, but the analogy was that there was a CRIME committed which they abetted, and the source of their hatred is their guilt, their desperate attempt to out-shout their consciences.

It is a very apt analogy.

[ProfessorPlum]

13. Thanks

for not being knee-jerk.

[DefenseLawyer]

15. Enlighten me

I am open to all points of view and I would always like a better understanding of others. Exactly how was the OP equating anything to slavery, or in any way minimizing the abhorrence of slavery? I saw it as equating people doing something they knew to be wrong and dealing with it by lashing out and expressing hatred. He may or not be correct in his analysis, but I didn't see any attempt to make hating Al Gore the moral equivalent of being a slave holder. You may very well be right to be offended, but I'm just not able to see it. Help me out.

[bbgrunt]

3. I sometimes wonder who they hate more--Clintons, Soros or Gore

They hate because it gives them a reason to live. They're addicted to the adrenalin.

[unpossibles]

4. interesting idea

I've always assumed it's for the same reason people hate on Hilary - because they've heard nothing but non-stop hate about them for over a decade and that it's acceptable to do so. That and a pride which will never allow them to admit when they are wrong - and which makes them angry when you use facts to point out how they are wrong.

[ProfessorPlum]

5. I think "people" around here don't like Hillary

because she is (to me) clearly on the side of the multinational corporate overlords who wish to keep dominating our government. The right seems to hate her because she is a strong woman, and threatens their little pee-pees.

But what has Gore ever done to people on the Right? Nothing, he just ran for President in 2000. Gore has never hurt the right, but they hate him with the white hot flame of hate that only seems to come when somebody knows they have victimized someone.

[unpossibles]

14. well, I agree she's a bit corporate for my taste

but that doesn't explain the outright hate and venom, imo. At least for me.

[Demeter]

9. Because Gore Tears Down Their Facades

Gore shows the ignorant bigot for what he is: not to be rewarded, but retrained.

[PDJane]

10. He is also brilliant...

the right hasn't had a champion with brains for a very, very long time.

[Demeter]

11. And That Is the Most Offensive Thing To Be

in this anti-intellectual country of mental and emotional midgets.

No offensive to the vertically challenged inferred or implied. Perhaps "stunted" would be a better choice of descriptor.

[Uncle Joe]

16. I believe there are three primary reasons, you touched on one of them

They know Al Gore did in fact win and they see him as an example of their own hypocrisy regarding democracy.

The other reasons are related to the fact that he had the vision and commitment to the people by becoming the prime political champion and Paul Revere/Ben Franklin of two seismic events which they only criticized and slandered him over and of which are becoming too big for them to control the message over. The democratization of information through the Internet and the increasingly apparent to the average American catastrophe of Global Warming.

The upshot is they know he would kick their ass in a general election and their prime concern is maintaining power.

[Tyler Durden]

17. One Important Reason the Right hates Gore: The Global Warming Issue

Global Warming is now, in except possibly the most FAUX programmed minds (outside of the Far Right Leadership), a fact and not a "THEORY" to be disputed or argued with.

But it can be ignored; like the "potential Lottery Winner" who sees themselves as eventually BEING one of the rich benefited by the Bush Tax Cuts, they have a vested interest (MAXIMIZED WEALTH) in seeing the status quo continue. I think they actually believe that they will be among the portion of the decimated Human Population (worst case scenario), able through their wealth and "power" to maintain their position and status in that post Global Warming Earth.

Delusion is a powerful drug; a much stronger hallucinogenic than ANY dose of LSD. Their WEALTH feeds the illusion of control, which creates the DELUSION that they can manage any issue to their advantage.

You can't fight this. You can only minimize and regulate the power these people obtain so as to make them ineffectual.

[baldguy]

18. Its not so much that Gore's positions are antithetical to the RW - they're not.

They ARE antithetical to the goals of the corporatocracy, and the RW has been slaves/puppets to the corporatocracy for so long they've forgotten how to think for themselves.

[hatrack]

19. Because he's been right on most of the big issues for the last ten years . . .

And they've been dead wrong, every time.