Blogger Steve Merryman explains this grotesque phenomenom:
In reading this putrid stinking excuse for a columnby James Carroll in the Boston Globe it occured to me that Bush-Hatred is like porn for Liberals.
Like porn of the flesh, it’s the thrill of political extremes that titlllates the Left. In this political peep show, our president is not merely misguided; he’s “deranged". He’s not simply striving for an unattainable goal; he’s a “boy in a bubble” acting with “callow hubris".
Just as porn appeals to the desire to flout societal convention, those on the left must feel great excitement in spewing their sweaty conspiracies, the wackier the better. Nothing is too sinister for this president to attempt. There is no taboo of political discourse the Left is not willing to trample in their need to satisfy their desire. This is the tawdry atmosphere in which it is acceptable, even encouraged, to write such things as “Full blown civil war, if it comes to that, will serve Bush’s purpose, too. All the better if Syria and Iran leap into the fray…” and “The only meaning ‘freedom’ can have in Iraq right now is freedom from the US occupation…”
It must be very titillating to those addicted to such perversions. What else are we to make of such lunatic ramblings as when Carroll likens Bush to the recent train derailment in California in which a suicidal maniac left his car on the train tracks, leaping to safety only to see the train derail and kill innocent travelers?
What is the point of such trash, if not to titillate?
The real damage of porn, we are told, is the objectification of the woman: she is no longer viewed as a person, but merely the means to an end, an object for enjoyment. In the porn of the left, George W. Bush is objectified into something inhuman, incapable of even the most commonplace of human traits. He is the vessel into which the left can thrust their hatred again and again, making wild claims and flinging lunacy upon lunacy in an orgy of twisted logic and foul, squirming lies.
Addiction to porn can render one incapable of engaging in real relationships. One wonders if the left can put such sordid obsessions aside and enter into a real conversation with the American people ever again. Or will they descend ever deeper into the spiral of hate, becoming more deluded with each passing hate-filled ejaculation, until they fade into a syphilitic coma, rendering their party impotent and ultimately, irrelevent.