An Emotional Rush: Everybody Needs Somebody To Hate

Nietzsche is Dead ^ | 5 March 09 | foutsc

[foutsc]

Liberal Democrats define themselves by who they hate

Working class family with a 5-gallon tank flush toilet and a carbon emiting barbeque grill: Bad

Millionaire enviro hypocrites with a carbon footprint the size of a small African country, wrapping the globe in private jet contrails: Good

Bankers who squander trillions of private investor money: Bad

Politicians and government bureaucrats who squander trillions of taxpayer money: Good.

Presidents Bush and Reagan: Bad

Presidents Carter and Obama: Good

You get the picture. Every Us needs a Them. Every great movement needs a nemesis, someone to hate.

In Orwell’s 1984, the people of Oceania hate Emmanuel Goldstein, traitor to the party. In real life, Stalinists poured out their hatred on Leon Trotsky, forcing him into a Mexican exile

The Democrats have found their own Emmanuel Goldstein, their own object of hatred: Rush Limbaugh.

James Carville, everybody at MSNBC, and now even White House operatives are stirring up their own version of the Two Minutes Hate. They direct their vituperation at the too-wealthy, overly-articulate Rush Limbaugh, a man of outsize girth and powerful rhetoric who dares criticize The Great Leader. Of course, they don't really believe their own BS, but it's good for stirring up the proletariate and distracting them from The Party's shortcomings.

The Democrats remind me of the sweaty, screaming hordes of pious Muslims at Mecca, inflamed by fervid religious passion, stoning Satan, often trampling fellow believer in the emotionally-pitched frenzy.

Who's the leader of the Republican party? Who cares? It's leaderless and adrift, like Europe or the UN. This means nothing to conservatives. Conservatives don’t need a leader. We’re conservative and we do conservative things because that’s the way we are, not because someone tells us to.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Minutes_Hate

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/19596.html

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2009/03/whos_the_leader_of_the_gop.html

[prismsinc]

We’re conservative and we do conservative things because that’s the way we are, not because someone tells us to.

Damn straight!!!!

[pnh102]

I was gonna say... it takes energy to hate someone. Most people aren’t worth hating.

[rockrr]

Granted, but I think I could make an exception for the Anointed “0”ne...