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My first impression was drugs and/or alcohol. The cops say she was sober at the time. Anyway, these types of incidents, this type of anger strikes me as being very similar to addictive behavior. Especially the finger pointing. Addicts tend to blame others for their problems - the classic 'scapegoat' syndrome - and this woman blames Obama for hers. Alcohol, drugs or just garden variety psychosis. Sad that she's six-months pregnant. I feel sorry for the kids.
Anyway, these types of incidents, this type of anger strikes me as being very similar to addictive behavior. Especially the finger pointing. Addicts tend to blame others for their problems - the classic 'scapegoat' syndrome - and this woman blames Obama for hers.
That is spot on. What I don't understand is the reason for this conservative need to always blame someone else. Is this a result of conservative propaganda always deflecting from the real causes and onto Democrats/unions/gays/blacks/immigrants etc., or are conservatives just unable to accept responsibility in life and need this crutch of someone to blame?
Their anger is continually stoked by the media they choose to listen to.
Oh, I think it is just the shock of being repudiated at the polls.
I'm not sure - much of the right wing has been angry for years, long before Obama's victory in 2008, so it can't be the result of a single electoral defeat - or even two in a row.
It's notable that the force on the right which is not angry is metropolitan and urbane conservatism (e.g. Noonan, Brooks, Frum, et al.).
The anger seems to come from rural (or rural-mindset) lower-middle and working-class people, possibly because they feel the sting of the scorn heaped on their "guns and religion" culture, possibly because they have suffered most from economic changes in the last couple of generations, or possibly simply because they are most susceptible to the insistent drumbeat of right-wing media propaganda.
This is what happens when the privileged lose..See Mitt Romney's continuing meltdown for an example
Yeah, there's that, but I'd say that's a different category. The real anger - rage, actually - comes from a different quarter. The upper-class right feels threatened, perhaps, and indignant, but I don't detect the same sort of rage from them as what's being channeled by Bachmann and her ilk from the working- and lower-middle-class right.
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