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?

[Sid Rich]

I'm not an LPer, but I am tired of voting for a "conservative" and not getting any reduction in the size of government...none. I don't expect radical overnight change, but now Bush...if he is serious...should be able to trim the federal leviathan at least a little.

[MattAMiller]

Schadenfreude would be gloating over the death of Wellstone. Welcoming the defeat of a party you don't like and the victory of a party you do like is just a part of politics.

And no I don't expect Republicans to even begin to roll back government any time soon. But it does give a forum to lay the intellectual groundwork and political capital to do just that.

Besides I think it's more important right now the levers of power are out of the hands of a party of bureaucrats. The Democrats have seen the bureacracy as an extension of their power, and vice versa. Having congress and the White House in Republican hands at least weakens that realtionship and allows for some reform and accountability if not actual cuts.

[sauropod]

The day after's is "Flibbertigibbet"

[manfromlamancha]

Psalm 99

[Paul Atreides]

and I wonder if it bothers anybody else.

Hmmmmmmmm.....NO!

If you want to hear a bunch of feel-good, get-along, pap, go to a Barney site. Don't expect me to feel guilty over winning over a bunch of socialist, abortion-loving, race-baiting, homo-promoting, feminazi, tax-hiking, gun-grabbing, white-hating, Christian-hating, criminal-loving, Clinton-loving, hypocritical demons. If you can't handle it, take a break from FR for a few days.

[snippy_about_it]

oh pooh. Can't we all just get along, can't we all just stop using cute catch phrases and get along.


We are enjoying a well deserved win. Get over yourself!

[manfromlamancha]

From Psalm 109:

Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.

When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.

Let his days be few; and let another take his office.

In otherwords God says have a good time and gloat freely.. we are right and protect the law, truth, and order from the party of liers

[steve-b]

Schadenfreud means enjoying another's misfortune even though you got no direct benefit. Enjoying your own victory is not schadenfreud.

True, but laughing at the rants and expressions of misery from the DUmmkopfs might qualify. (Personally, I'd just call it a natural reaction to a ridiculous spectacle, rather like amusement at Groucho Marx as the leader of Freedonia.)

That said, I'd make a distinction between the DU fanatics and the regular Democrat rank-and-file who are honestly misguided. I wouldn't dream of mocking the latter (for one thing, it would make them defensive and less likely to reconsider their errors).

[Paul Atreides]

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.

What a ridiculous statement! In case you didn't know, this was an election. Nobody here is holding a rally over a dead man's grave. We are happy over winning. The competition knew what it was getting into. Now, if that taxes your delicate constitution, this might be the wrong site for you.

[joesnuffy]

I dont see any caca and its certainly not directed at anybody's Friends

[Calamari]

I can't stand that kind of hateful attack-dog stuff,

You need to go over to the DU web site and do some opposition research on our opponents. These people have a visceral hatred of republicans, conservatives and freepers. We don't need to hate but we must not be ignorant of how we are viewed by them. They are evil. We must continue to defend ourselves and this Republic from evil; both foreign and domestic!

[weikel]

but I harbor no hatred for the opposition

The Dems are commies or useful idiots the people in control want a totalitarian state you should hate them.

[Bob Buchholz]

(I had time and had signaled)

That was your error. Don't you know that turning on a turn signal means 'hurry up and get beside me so that I can't possibly get in front of you'?

I seldom use the signal anymore because the majority of drivers will do anything to keep you from getting in front of them. Just make sure you have plenty of room, change lanes and prepare the middle finger for the inevitable honk. It didn't used to be this way, but now drivers sit in the left lane going exactly the same speed as the person in the right lane, won't let you change lanes, will cut you off to keep from being passed and are generally inconsiderate and self-centered drivers.

[ArcLight]

Hey, you're the same ArcLight who threatened to leave FreeRepublic because of all the "rampant racism." We just can't do anything to please you, can we? There are other forums, you know.

Well...it got better after I griped about it...:-)

[ArcLight]

"Flibbertigibbet"


I love that word!!

Er...what does it mean?

[Reactionary]

Bah. Schadenfreude perfectly appropriate when you know your enemies have never deserved to rule.

I want more of it. They don't deserve to be honored for fighting the good fight.

[45Auto]

... the RAT party was no longer interested in the continuity of the Constitutional Republic.

There was no other conclusion that made any sense. When that dawned on me it was like being hit with lightning. Now I view every election like it is a battle in a new civil war. God help us if the election process ever falters enough to convince a lot of people that the whole thing is fradulent.

[Norman Conquest]

See http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=flibbertigibbet&r=2:

flib·ber·ti·gib·bet Pronunciation Key (flbr-t-jbt)
n.
A silly, scatterbrained, or garrulous person.