It is troubling, largely because it is so irrational, and the perps are impervious to discrepant information.
These people have made it intensely personal, so their beliefs systems have snapped shut like a box. It is closely related to clinical paranoia.
I too have seen some of these total nutso demoweenies go over the cliff the moment I mention something about Kerry.
I asked a guy at work a few days ago if he was still voting for Kerry, he's an "Anybody but Bush" guy...he was unable to respond in any coherant manner and stuttered.."has Bush shown up for his physical yet?"
The intellectual dishonesty of these LOSERS is pathetic. They have nominated a toadal ASS KLOWN as their candidate and now they are finding out how bad horseface really is. They all have stuned beebers and moose-bitten sisters with no base belonging to them anymore.
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Interestingly, I've seen similar statements regarding why Muslims hate America so much. Perhaps we won't have to travel far to get to the next Crusade.
I've been working on a different theory: These people are, almost uniformly, aetheists.
Having turned their backs on God, they experience a terrible, deep-seated emptiness in their lives, and this socialist/materialist/elitist/hedonist/narcissist culture BECOMES their religion.
I.e. it is not that their beliefs systems have snapped shut like a box, but that "socialism" [or materialism, or elitism, or hedonism, or narcissism, or whatever you want to call it] is precisely their belief system, and they are committed to it with the same sort of religious fervor that the jihadists are committed to the Koran [and its unequivocal commandments to murder us, the infidels].
"Religious" peoples [read: classical "Protestants" - I don't know that I understand "Judaism" or "Catholicism" well enough to comment on them, although I fear that I do] don't suffer from this sort of investment in the here and now - rather, their hopes and dreams are invested in the hereafter, so if their candidate fails to become Ward Boss [and hence can't deliver the goods], then it's no big deal.
They just shrug their shoulders and get on with their lives.