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Jeff In Milwaukee

(13,992 posts)
Mon Sep 30, 2013, 10:34 AM Sep 2013

Interesting Comparison

Consider this:

&quot They) are overwhelmingly male (95 percent, he estimates), and mostly white and middle-aged. They feel inadequate as men and have often suffered childhood abuse. Having felt powerless as kids, many try to exert strict control over their households and seek to create an idealized version of family that they never experienced. When the economy is in decline, jobs are scarce, tensions are high, and the control these men seek becomes harder to maintain."


Now if you're thinking, "Hey, that sounds like a typical Tea Partier," you wouldn't be far off the mark. But this isn't a description of the Tea Party. It's a description of what criminologists call "Family Annihilators," the guys who go berserk and kill their entire family and then kill themselves.

Their anger festers for decades, and when they feel everything slipping away, they decide to destroy everything.

Now if that sounds like a description of why the Tea Party would want to cause a default on the federal debt, then it's probably just a coincidence. Right? Right?

I'm just saying.
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Interesting Comparison (Original Post) Jeff In Milwaukee Sep 2013 OP
I think you've got something there LiberalEsto Sep 2013 #1
 

LiberalEsto

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1. I think you've got something there
Mon Sep 30, 2013, 10:38 AM
Sep 2013

They want to annihilate everyone in the US who doesn't look and "think" exactly like they do.

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