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Are Leftists Literally Addicted to Hatred?

After reading some articles and watching videos over the past 20 years, specifically, this article really made a lot of things clear.

I've said for a long time that the primary debate tools of the left are:
Ad hominem attack
Projection
deflection

And the projection part especially rang true. Like the leftist who feely admitted he was voting for Obama because he was black, and accusing me of voting against him because he's black - even though I've never voted for ANY democrat for president in my life.

Or the constant accusations that conservatives are the ones that spew hate, even though when you watch a BLM, Antifa, "hands up, don't shoot" rally and juxtapose against a TEA party rally and you get the opposite opinion. Or the fascist Antifa calling the right "fascist.

And this article really nailed the "hate" projection. So here it is:

Are Leftists Literally Addicted to Hatred?

I think the answer is a resonding yes. They tend to be younger (under 25) and, therefore, more emotional in their response - which includes hatred. The right is far more mature and tends to respond more logically and with long term consequences of their response in mind.

But it's a great article.

New study identifies a psychological factor linked to Trump supporters’ vindictiveness

https://www.psypost.org/2020/03/new-...tiveness-56280

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The desire to matter and feel significant among Donald Trump supporters is associated with support for hostile and vindictive actions against the president’s political rivals, according to new research published in the journal Political Psychology.

Pretty clear that Trumpkins are the haters. They're quite pathetic, but I really can't find any empathy for them. Sad.

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Originally Posted by Not Insane (Post 388365)

IRONIC POST OF THE DAY to have a right winger accuse liberals of “hate”.

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Originally Posted by watsup1000 (Post 388371)

IRONIC POST OF THE DAY to have a right winger accuse liberals of “hate”.

What is a "right winger"?

I'm a conservative using modern vernacular. But at the time of my country's founding, the phrase would have been classical liberal. I know a lot of conservatives and a lot of liberals, having friends and family all over the country. Just a perusal of my wife's and my facebook feed would paint a pretty clear picture of which side is steeped in hate. It's tangible.

And it is on display in this very site. Have a nice day, friend. :)

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Originally Posted by Chicks (Post 388370)

New study identifies a psychological factor linked to Trump supporters’ vindictiveness

https://www.psypost.org/2020/03/new-...tiveness-56280

Pretty clear that Trumpkins are the haters. They're quite pathetic, but I really can't find any empathy for them. Sad.

There's the difference. Most of the conservatives I know actually have empathy for the leftists. Heck, we were all young at one time and were leftists ourselves. We can actually relate. :)

But we grew up. And most of these kids rioting now will too.

This great article covers the whole thing from a different angle:

Street mobs and democrats

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Never, goes the ancient adage, pick a fight you're not prepared to finish.

The craziness, the certifiable lunacy, that swirls about us testifies to the inability of the left to think through the implications of what it began, peaceably enough, last May in the streets of Minneapolis, which presently envelops the country to one degree or another.

The left escalates the street violence, not to mention the violence perpetrated on reason and logic by unreasonable, illogical declarations, through the pretense that it's all the fault of the white Republican authorities.

The party that throws the first punch claims innocent bystander status? Hogwash. To throw the first punch is to invite a counterpunch by the punchee, thoroughly convinced of not having provoked anything -- anything, that is, that might justify the resultant knock-down drag-out.

The left started this business and now finds itself unready to finish it, to the enrichment of -- ironically enough -- President Donald Trump's laggard hopes of winning a second term.

Illogic takes you only so far, as with the claim that federal "storm troopers" in jackboots have taken over portions of downtown Portland, Oregon, to the impeachment of life and liberty and to the enthronement of fascism. Of course, they haven't. Can't you tell by looking? See any jackboots? See federal agents starting any brawls -- the kind of brawls that protesters of left have trademarked?

According to the left, poor, innocent rioters are getting set on by the jackboot set for exercising the right of free speech. Trying to break into a federal courthouse isn't free speech, though free and intelligent speech are presently in high demand and would be welcomed for the sake of improving social interactions.

The obligatory mention of George Floyd and Derek Chauvin seems, for TV news purposes, to brush aside objections to mob violence when it really ought to remind us that dealing in a legal system with violence requires the opposite of violence -- to wit, orderly processes prescribed by the law, arguments rather than fights.

The wild and woolly left all too obviously doesn't care a fig for the just punishment of unjust offenses. If it did, it would stand down from arson and street battles with the cops. That's not the program. There is, in fact, no program beyond fighting and burning and denouncing and pretending to embrace an idealism it would better exemplify by letting fellow Americans live in peace.

The left -- back to where we came in -- has started a fight it doesn't know how to finish, or maybe doesn't want to finish. Idiocy for the sake of idiocy is the policy on display. Meanness for the sake of meanness.

What do you do with idiocy and meanness if, by chance, you gain the upper hand? Here's the challenge for those Democrats, including Joe Biden, who hope the noise from the streets drowns out anything Trump might have to say about more authentic goals in life; among those goals is putting the pandemic behind us and refloating the U.S. economy.

The polls show Trump way down at present -- a sure loser to Biden in just three months' time. The polls could be right. But then, two related considerations kick in.

No. 1: Could our mob moment, and the facility of the Democrats in apologizing for bad behavior that seemingly undercuts Trump, end up strengthening the very guy they want to finish off?

No. 2: What if they win anyway? What then? After victory comes governing. An administration ushered into power by, in part, the ugliness of violence has to decide what to do. How do you shape a unitive program while the memories of violence and disruption and name-calling linger large? How do you pass such a program? Do you, in the mode of street protest, stuff it down people's throats? And then what? And for how long? And with what effects on popular consent and general peace?

Are the Democrats thinking along these lines? They should be. As the book of proverbs would have it, there is a lion in the streets, in the form of a snarling mob. And those who seem not to care or notice do their country no service.

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Originally Posted by watsup1000 (Post 388371)

IRONIC POST OF THE DAY to have a right winger accuse liberals of “hate”.

Yes, especially from this Insane clown, who’s clearly a sociopath, like his cult-master. Sad!

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Originally Posted by Chicks (Post 388376)

Yes, especially from this Insane clown, who’s clearly a sociopath, like his cult-master. Sad!

Is ad-hom literally all you have? I think you need to give Democratic Underground a try. You should fit in right there and they probably won't ban you. :D

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Originally Posted by Not Insane (Post 388365)

Plenty of hate to go around Dude!:rolleyes:

What is it with people?
That it always takes violence, destruction and sorrow in order to get the parties to work things out it seems? That the act of getting tired of the anguish and pain is the motivation. Not seeing the need until afterwards instead of before.

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Originally Posted by Not Insane (Post 388375)

This great article covers the whole thing from a different angle:

Street mobs and democrats

Yeh...Townhall.com, the propaganda rag of American right-wingdolt Trump voters.