I have been wondering lately why it seems to me that the left is so angry all the time. I know it's the campaign season and debates are heating up, etc. but the intensity of the hatred coming from the left seems more severe than ever. I thought it was just me, but others see it as well.

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I thought we had seen the highs of the Bush-bashing after Katrina when Bush was actually blamed for steering the storm to New Orleans. I understand that the left blames Bush for the war in Iraq (although Congress voted to authorize it) and that Bush lied about WMD's (although Congress, several countries, and U.N. also believed he had them) but, even if all that is true, is this hatred good for the country.

In less than a year, the left's candidate may very well be in charge. How are they going to heal a country they have spent years tearing apart?

This country has faced many more obstacles in the past than it currently is facing. You can list Iraq, subprime loan debacle, $100 barrel oil.....but I can list WWII, 20% interest rates, and NO Oil (Oil embargo of 70's), Americans being held hostage, etc, Russia aiming missiles at us, etc. My point is that in the past, our country has had problems and gotten through them by coming together as a people. Can you imagine your mother going off to the factory to make bombs because all the men were off in a war or the fact that you had to ration gas or sugar every day. It happened in this country! Believe me, there have been far worse or challenging times than the ones we have today. This country will get through it if we pull together.

I guess my point is that the left has been calling for Bush's head for 2 or 3 years and blaming him for all our problems.....well guess what, Bush will be out in a few months. Is the left prepared to take over and solve all our problems? Will we continue to have gridlock in Washington? Should the right now begin blaming everything wrong in the world on the new President? When will the bickering end and our nation begin moving forward?

Because, its in their nature to bitch about everything until they get what they want like a baby, and then when they get what they want they're happy for a few minutes then they repeat the process even with a democratic president.

The vitriol spouted by the left is truly amazing.  They regularly wish slow and painful death on people they don’t like such as Clarence Thomas.  Or spew hate when they publicly hope that VP Cheney will get killed by a terrorist bomber when visiting Iraq.  Or spit on soldiers off to war or coming home.  Or taunt wounded soldiers on their way to the hospital.  Or threaten to hit or spit on fellow Fox News commentators when they don’t like them like Geraldo did to Michelle Malkin.  

I can get angry.  And I am capable of violence when I or my family is threatened.  Frankly, I detest John McCain for the damage he has done our nation.  But, do I wish him death?  No!  I have wished him an early and long retirement.  Just get him out of the Senate.  But I don’t wish him dead.  Do I detest Bill and Hillary?  Certainly!  But, I don’t wish them dead.  I just wish they would leave me alone.  I don’t want to participate in their communist vision of America or have to put up with their tawdry, trailer park trash lifestyles.  

The left projects their almost unfathomable hatred onto us and then calls us intolerant while wishing we would die slowly and painfully.  It brings a new level of meaning to the word “irony.”

All very good points and I completely agree. I sometimes visit liberal forums (I never participate just read) and the hatred they have for conservatives is indeed disturbing. They put conservatives into 3 categories 1) Racist bigots, 2) Greedy corporate elites and 3) Uneducated, unsophisticated, illiterate Christians.  Actually, they believe that simply BEING a Christian ENSURES that you're uneducated, unsophisticated and illiterate...oh, and supersticious. Yet these ideas are bigoted! The very thing conservatives are always accused of. I don't get it.

But what is REALLY disturbing is how much they actually want for the US to fail militarily and economically so they can blame it all on Bush and the Republicans. Good God! They live here too! Isn't this also their country? Don't they realize if our economic system goes completely bankrupt that it'll effect them too? Don't they know that if we get attacked again by terrorists they'll also be in the line of fire? Or do they imagine that they live in some fantasy world where only the conservatives will take the brunt of the crises they so fervently hope for?

I remember not long after 9/11 I read something that Michael Moore had said...it was something to the effect that the terrorists needed to understand that many of the people in the WTC had NOT voted for Bush!  He wasn't complaining that so many AMERICANS were killed, just that the terrorists had accidentally killed liberals.

I'm just afraid that if a Democrat winds up in office (God forbid) they're going to do everything they can to stick it to the conservatives...and they'll believe that that's a good thing.

But, on a brighter note, with the Democrats in office we can certainly look forward to happy days! Osama bin Laden, I'm sure will be captured right away, the hatred that terrorists have towards us will transform into love and admiration and the economy will soar!! (I'm sure the sarcasm is understood.)

angelka71 wrote:All very good points and I completely agree. I sometimes visit liberal forums (I never participate just read) and the hatred they have for conservatives is indeed disturbing. They put conservatives into 3 categories 1) Racist bigots, 2) Greedy corporate elites and 3) Uneducated, unsophisticated, illiterate Christians.  Actually, they believe that simply BEING a Christian ENSURES that you're uneducated, unsophisticated and illiterate...oh, and supersticious. Yet these ideas are bigoted! The very thing conservatives are always accused of. I don't get it.

I think psychologists call this "projection."  They think and believe all these things and then assume or project that we think and believe these things too.

Why do liberals hate so much?  Because they continue to be unsuccessful in their ONLY goal in life.

What is a liberal's only goal in life?  What motivates a liberal in all things large & small?

A desire to convince others that they are better than everyone else.  An insatiable NEED to APPEAR morally superior to other people.

They do not focus on problems or their solutions.  They NEVER follow a step by step logical progression of trying to figure out the best alternative solution to a given problem.  They also NEVER assess whether a presumed problem is an actual problem.  They are utterly incapable of introspection.  They are incapable of struggling to figure out what is truly right and wrong -- perhaps because they see no distinction between a "true" right and wrong.

To a liberal, what is "right", is what APPEARS to be right.  Whatever postition APPEARS to give them the moral high-ground.  Whatever belief makes them FEEL as if they are morally superior than others.

As a result, they do not even attempt to reason out the best solution or position.  They jump directly past reasons, logic and inconvenient facts -- straight to the solution/position which immediately APPEARS to be more moral; and which ought to, in their minds, make it clear to everyone else how much "better" they are: how much more "moral", how much more "tolerant", how much more "compassionate".

The ONE and ONLY purpose in the life of EVERY liberal, is to APPEAR morally superior to others.  This is truth.


So, why do they hate?  Why are they so angry?

Quite simply because they haven't been able to convince everyone that they are the best, most moral, most tolerant, and most compassionate people in the world.

When their conscious mind starts to become aware that the positions/opinions/beliefs that they hold are based upon nothing and are, in fact, NOT the most moral or compassionate -- their subconscious mind REBELS, and their deeply ingrained feelings of superiority scream out in hatred, fear, and anger.  To allow rational thought to disturb their pre-conceived notions of moral superiority would force them -- on the spot -- to confront the possibility that their entire perception of themselves, their whole lives, their whole personality, their IDENTITY is based upon nothing.   I wouldn't expect anyone to back down or admit being mistaken when doing so would result in the total disintigration of their identity and sense of self.

I really think they just don't like grumpy old men in hats.