2aguy
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Rush Limbaugh brought up this column from the National Review that points out what many people who watch politics and the democrat party have thought for a long time..... that the nuts in the democrat party, are, in fact, nuts.....
Jim Garaghty is not the first to bring this up...I actual began to think this years ago, and radio host Michael Savage wrote a book about this.......
Brett Kavanaugh Accusations from more Unnamed Sources | National Review
The more time I spend covering politics, the more I’m convinced that a significant chunk of grassroots political activists aren’t really arguing about politics at all.
These folks are actually grappling with personal psychological issues and projecting it onto the world of politics. Every problem they had with a parent is projected onto authority figures.
Every religious person who ever scolded them or made them feel guilty becomes the embodiment of organized religion and demonstrates its menace.
Because they’ve had a bad experience with a member of a minority group, that experience reveals something sinister about every member of that minority group.
The cop who wrote them a ticket instead of giving them a warning demonstrates the danger and corruption of law enforcement, the boss who fired them for shoddy work exemplifies the inherent cruelty of the capitalist system, and every frustrating experience they had with an ex-girlfriend demonstrates some defect in all women.
This is why things get so personal with them so quickly. They cannot distinguish their worldview from themselves, and so if you contradict that worldview, they believe that you have attacked them personally.
In their minds, expressing doubt about an accusation of sexual assault means you support rape; scoffing at the need for higher taxes means you’re greedy and want them to endure more financial difficulties; and as a Yale freshman puts it in The Atlantic article linked above, “You can’t devalue a woman’s right to choose and respect women.” Only 31 percent of women believe abortion should be legal in all circumstances — meaning, in the mindset of the student, 69 percent of women do not respect women.
Jim Garaghty is not the first to bring this up...I actual began to think this years ago, and radio host Michael Savage wrote a book about this.......
Brett Kavanaugh Accusations from more Unnamed Sources | National Review
The more time I spend covering politics, the more I’m convinced that a significant chunk of grassroots political activists aren’t really arguing about politics at all.
These folks are actually grappling with personal psychological issues and projecting it onto the world of politics. Every problem they had with a parent is projected onto authority figures.
Every religious person who ever scolded them or made them feel guilty becomes the embodiment of organized religion and demonstrates its menace.
Because they’ve had a bad experience with a member of a minority group, that experience reveals something sinister about every member of that minority group.
The cop who wrote them a ticket instead of giving them a warning demonstrates the danger and corruption of law enforcement, the boss who fired them for shoddy work exemplifies the inherent cruelty of the capitalist system, and every frustrating experience they had with an ex-girlfriend demonstrates some defect in all women.
This is why things get so personal with them so quickly. They cannot distinguish their worldview from themselves, and so if you contradict that worldview, they believe that you have attacked them personally.
In their minds, expressing doubt about an accusation of sexual assault means you support rape; scoffing at the need for higher taxes means you’re greedy and want them to endure more financial difficulties; and as a Yale freshman puts it in The Atlantic article linked above, “You can’t devalue a woman’s right to choose and respect women.” Only 31 percent of women believe abortion should be legal in all circumstances — meaning, in the mindset of the student, 69 percent of women do not respect women.
