You've got to remember that FR was first founded at a dark time, back in 1996-1997 when Clinton was in the White House, the Waco church burning was still on everyone's minds, and people actually **feared** the coming Y2K "Apocalpyse".Well, Y2K didn't bring on TEOTWAWKI, but ever since the Y2K related tech jobs started drying up, followed by the dot com bust, you've got yourself quite a few FReepers who are actively **wishing** for some big disaster.
If the government is somehow destroyed, they "reason", then they won't have to get a new job or learn a new skill.
So this core group of FR malcontents will actively **wish** for bad things to happen in the U.S. They relish posting every possible negative news story, hoping that others will join them in their gloom and doom sentiment.
Every Presidential action is criticized. Every politician is thrashed as not being ideal enough (at best).
They pray that inflation will bankrupt us, or that deflation will destroy us. They greedily lap up stories of layoffs and cheer on the "inevitable trend downward".
They bash the Patriot Act even though not one of them can cite a single unConstitutional sentence in the actual document itself. They bash foreign spending and foreign troop deployments as though we were isolationist and didn't depend upon foreign oil for our daily economy.
Pick an issue and these same malcontents will have some pessimistic opinion about it. They never show optimism, after all, and they don't allow themselves to praise a single thing positive in all of America.
Fortunately, there aren't very many of them here. They are just vocal. You can watch the same ones posting the same depressing criticisms as if they'd never been mentioned before. On and on they repeat themselves.
But like the Leftists who likewise oppose us, they are losing. We continue to win victories and grow in popularity, while their ranks dwindle with each passing day.