Why Are Freepers So Damned Angry All The Time?

[Mr. Ected]

They rant and they rave. They preach and they drench us with spittle. They tell us what they are AGAINST, never what they are FOR. They move to repress, to oppress, and to suppress...but never to enhance. They are John Cleese in the Monty Python segment "The Argument Clinic"; satisfied with just saying "no" as a rebuttal to any salient point made by their opposition.

Why? What is with these people? Granted, we progressives are far from perfect, and scream a blue streak when our civic or civil rights are distorted or negated...but what is it with the freepers that keeps their rhetoric at a 24/7 fever pitch?

[Donnachaidh]

1. they bought ExTenze and it didn't help. n/t

[ejpoeta]

2. it's called fear. fear of change. fear of a black president. fear of

losing control over other people's lives. fear of losing control over their own lives. fear.

[HopeHoops]

They suffer from a tragic disorder...

Advanced Lackanookie Syndrome. Everyone on FOX has it.

[madrchsod]

3. they have really bad sexual relationships

[HopeHoops]

4. Not counting animals.

Or vegetables.

[Lerkfish]

8. or diapers

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

5. Chronic constipation

resulting from cranio-rectal impaction.

[Happyhippychick]

6. Because they have teeny, tiny little penises.

[Bluzmann57]

7. Jealousy?

What progressives are pushing is working and the freeps can't admit they're wrong. And I think that they may not be the most intelligent people out there either. And (sorry) they have a victim mentality. In other words, it's never their fault.

[hootinholler]

9. Because they're not happy unless they're pissed off about something.

Simple, really.

-Hoot

[Starbucks Anarchist]

10. Mom raised the rent again.

[OHDEM]

11. They used to be on top with no competition...

...but then uppity black people, brown people, women and even GLBT people started demanding equal rights, jobs and fair treatment. They are the victims dammit! Hannity/Rush/Beck etc. told them so!!

[rucky]

12. I have a theory...

Outrage gets the endorphins pumping. I think it's addictive. I think there's such a thing as an outrage high that some people keep coming back for.

[Alcibiades]

24. good theory

Also, I think they were spanked a lot by authoritarian parents.

[bluethruandthru]

39. I'll bet you're right!

It seems repubs I know are always looking to pick a fight or stir things up. They hate when you ignore them.

[krispos42]

13. Because they continually vote against their own best-interest...

...and contiunually get screwed by the top-tilted economy and the rotting social structure. But, since they voted for the party and the system that "rewards hard work and initiative" and they're getting screwed, they can only logically blame... liberals.


Because Lord knows they won't ever blame themselves.

[Lerkfish]

14. republicans are the ultimate Id (Freudian term)

n. In Freudian theory, the division of the psyche that is totally unconscious and serves as the source of instinctual impulses and demands for immediate satisfaction of primitive needs.

republicans feel that the entire world is a machine that's only goal is to make them happy, rich, content. Since that isn't at all what the world is, they are perpetually frustrated.
At times, like Limbaugh, Rove, etc, they achieve a simulcrum of a bubble around themselves that almost achieves that: where their every need and whim is provided, including mindless adoration. The problem is this bubble is not natural, and must be brought about through a huge influx of power, manipulation and falsehoods.

[NutmegYankee]

15. Because that's what reactionaries do! They react with anger.

How dare we progress without them...

[mitchum]

16. Because mom said no more handjobs from her until they clean up all those Cheetos

[tom_paine]

17. You want an actual honest answer backed up by science? Why were the Nazis so angry all the time?

Same mental archetype being assaulted by the same Bushiganda, essentially.

Activating, doubly and trebly, those things in them which are always with us, as some segment of the population has always been "high authoritarian".

Read this...and understand.

http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/

[Mr. Ected]

19. This Is Some GOOD Stuff, Tom

Scientific, yes. But it has practical applications that might help diffuse future personal conflicts that may arise when I'm confronted by freepers.

...and living in Georgia, I can't help but be confronted by freepers each and every moment of each and every day.

[Occulus]

30. Altmeyer is why I get so ticked off when people call upon "Godwin's Law"

Godwin never implied that comparing anything to the Nazis was wrong and "the first one to bring up the Nazis 'loses'". What he claimed was that, as the length of any particular Internet discussion increases, so does the likelihood that someone will make a Nazi comparison.

In the case of the Bush regime, most of the behavioral comparisons are completely correct.

[Echo In Light]

21. And to dovetail on that: Official Culture in America: A Natural State of Psychopathy?

Official Culture in America: A Natural State of Psychopathy?
Laura Knight-Jadczyk

http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/official_culture.htm

[noiretextatique]

22. thanks tom

it would be great to see this in a thread of its own. my BA is in psychology (even though i have been an accountant for 20+ years) so this is particularly interesting to me.

[tekisui]

18. Xenophobic, paranoid bigots are dying faster than they are being born.

They are on the losing end of history.

[wickerwoman]

20. Real girls aren't impressed by their porn collections

and mail-order brides are too expensive?

But mostly because they secretly know that they can't compete once women, gays, minorities and immigrants are thrown into the mix.

And it's easier to be pissed that other people won't stay in their place than it is to upgrade themselves.

[Submariner]

23. Inevitability

and what FKN M said: cranio-rectal impaction.

[Alcibiades]

25. They were brought up in authoritarian homes

It is a question of values. And, despite their ideology that success is everything, they live paycheck to paycheck like most Americans, so they are bitter and cling to fascism.

And they are poorly educated. Plus, many cannot get over the loss of their side in 1865.

[cpompilo]

26. I agree with post #12. Outrage is the only emotion

that they can feel. It makes them feel alive.

[Canuckistanian]

27. You don't want to know what they're FOR

There's all kinds of sick fantasies of what THEY'D like the world to be.

[rustydog]

28. Because they have to pay for sex. Even with their spouses?

[DearAbby]

29. Well to be fair

I was pretty gawd dammed angry the last eight years...just spread it out a little better with some happiness via my family and friends...found some moments of joy now and then. They just need to pace themselves, hell its only been a 100+ some days since Obama took office...at this pace, there won't be any freeper's left go teabaggin on the fourth of July!

[Marsala]

35. Yeah, DU isn't exactly a lake of placidity, either

But it took years for us to get into a collective frothing rage at Bush, while they seem to have lept straight into Obama Derangement Syndrome from day 1.

[Lorien]

31. Fear and inferiority complexes

most Freepers I've known are chronic under achievers who always search for someone to blame for their fuck ups and lack of education and intelligence. They search for a "leader" to protect them from all sorts of imagined threats. It's got to be difficult living that way; if they truly had "faith" they wouldn't be afraid or feel so inferior, but their "faith", like everything else they claim, is a sham.

[omega minimo]

32. Authoritarianism

[baldguy]

33. Eternal constipation & small penises.

[cagesoulman]

34. Because anger at others helps them repress themselves

Fuckwads.

[yellowcanine]

36. Chronic bleeding hemorrhoids?

[GoneOffShore]

37. They watch FOX and as everyone knows

"The FOX is a common carrier of rabies, a virus that leaves its victims foaming at the mouth and causes paranoia and hallucinations."

[Raine]

38. Being a LOSER will do that to you

of course that doesn't explain WHY they were angry when chimp was in. :shrug:

[Ikonoklast]

40. I disagree.

[RagAss]

41. Shit scared since they were born !