ENOUGH SCHADENFREUDE!

Me | 11/6/2002

[ArcLight]

I've detected way too much gloating up in here. It makes me uncomfortable and I wonder if it bothers anybody else.

I thank God the GOP did as well as it did, but I harbor no hatred for the opposition. For one thing, well, I just don't. I find it hard to hate somebody just because he'd pull a different lever in a voting booth. For another, if we did that, we'd be just like the worst, creepiest people we've seen in the Democrat party--the ones that held the Wellstone funerally or who passed out Oreo cookies to attack a black Republican in Maryland.

I can't stand that kind of hateful attack-dog stuff, and I want no part of it. The gloating I see here reminds me of it, and I hope that people will dial it back a bit, now that the first flush of victory has passed.

Or is it just me?

[Hanging Chad]

If you're happy, and you know it, clap your hands !

[CFW]

Can't we have 24 hours of gloating? Then we can go back to being "walk all over me" nice.

[LibertyGirl77]

Relax, it's just the "first flush of victory." People will calm down soon and get to the business of rolling back decades of government corruption. I think.

[Petronski]

But that's exactly the point of Schadenfreude--'strange joy'--these events happen and we feel some kind of joy about them even when that joy might be inappropriate.

There's too much gloating going on, I would agree, but when bad things happen to bad people, why should we not expect some sense of satisfaction about it?

[EggsAckley]

Not just you. Schadenfreude is one of the more lamentable character flaws in human beings. Glad you spoke up.

[sauropod]

It's you. And stop stealing HHC's word of the day!

[Texas_Jarhead]

Is it glee or gloating? probably a little of both but more than either of those I think it is relief and anticipation.

[Thane_Banquo]

Two Republicans are in front of a firing squad. They are asked if they have any final requests. One Republican says to the other, "I'd kinda like a blindfold."

The second Republican replies, "Let's not raise trouble."

Well, I for one want to raise a little trouble for a change!

[45Auto]

There was a time when I viewed the "good" RATS as merely the "loyal opposition". It is the RATs themselves who have convinced me that they are, in fact, the enemy - to be defeated everywhere. The change occurred gradually, but it was complete when I realized that the RAT party was no longer interested in the continuity of the Constitutional Republic. To be sure, the repubos are not perfect in their defense of that venerable document, but they are not in as big a hurry to destroy it.

[isthisnickcool]

Humans compete. Some lose. Some win. Those that win can be happy that they did.

If it makes you feel any better, we are all going to die.

[CFW]

Since the RATS feel so bad, maybe we should just give back the races we won. Or at least enough of them to make it even. Then everyone can feel good and we can all just get along.

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

I think 'gloating' means doing it in front of the opposition. I would never do that. If we keep it in here at FR, where only Dem disruptors would see it, then they're basically crashing our celebration.

That said, I'm pretty low-key either way. My joy is inside. A good wedding present for me -- my small ceremony is this Saturday. Would you like a CD with video of the ceremony? It might take a week or two for me to create them.

[Sid Rich]

Name one government program you think the Republicans will cut. I know your post mentioned corruption, but do you think the party of "less government intrusion" will actually implement its beliefs? Unfortunately, I don't anymore. I would like them to throw me a bone. I don't expect the New Deal and Great Society to be gone with the stroke of a pen, but I'd like to see Bush cut SOMETHING damnit.

[MNlurker]

It was too late this AM to have some drinks in celebration as I had to go to work . I plan on celebrating tonite with a number of beers and cigarettes.


Come Thursday. I'll start working again.

[dfwgator]

It's you. And stop stealing HHC's word of the day!

Tomorrow's word is "Fahrvergnugen."

[xJones]

I've detected way too much gloating up in here. It makes me uncomfortable and I wonder if it bothers anybody else.

I'm guilty of gloating and it's bad, because life teaches you that what goes around comes around. Remember when Nixon went through Watergate and *Republican* was a dirty name? Remember Jimmy Carter and his idiot family for four years? Remember Iran-Contra and how Reagan was nearly pulled down? Remember the electorate twice voting in Clinton and New Yorkers voting in his wife as Senator? There's a lot to remember and it could/will be our turn next.

[Puppage]

I've detected way too much gloating up in here. It makes me uncomfortable

Gee, I forgot this was ALL ABOUT YOU. I Guess I'm grounded now, huh?

Get over it, after the thieving that the Rats did (and, got away with, mind you) we DESERVE IT. Take your liberal whining, elsewhere.

[Argus]

I get your point, but I work in a Hollywood studio, where I am literally surrounded by liberals. I like my colleagues, but they have no compunction about hammering President Bush as an idiot, an appointed president, and so forth, as well as blithely insulting conservatives in general as fiends in human shape. This morning I cheerfully called out as I entered the office, "the reign of terror starts today". We all had a good laugh and went about our business.

[Lizavetta]

I find it hard to hate somebody just because he'd pull a different lever in a voting booth.

When their lever-pulling results in policies that are destructive to me and my family, such as confiscatory taxes, infringments on my personal liberties, corruption, and general all-around Marxism, I find it incredibly easy to hate them. Their politics are based on envy and theft and I despise them.