The Lonely Losers of Limbaugh Land

[babylonsister]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/20669


The Lonely Losers of Limbaugh Land

by Jaime O'Neill | March 9, 2009 - 3:17pm Share


snip//

Like Rush, they never heard of a "defense" appropriation they didn't like, nor a social program they did.

Like Rush, most of them have a nasty streak and a mean sense of humor. They're the kind of people you might find yourself sitting behind in the movies, those guys who laugh in all the wrong places, and think it's funny whenever someone is getting their head blown off.

They think they believe in personal responsibility, but they take little responsibility for their bitter unhappiness, finding instead a legion of scapegoats arrayed as a barrier to their contentment. It was those ex-wives, it was feminism, it was government regulation and taxation that has made their roads more rutted than they'd expected them to be when they dropped out of college, or high school.

In their anti-intellectualism and their eagerness to find scapegoats among the least powerful, they bear an uneasy similarity to Hitler's first followers, the Brown Shirts. And, in their thirst for old-fashioned male power over passive and compliant women, they share more attitudes with the Taliban than many of them would care to acknowledge.

You probably remember these guys from when you were high school. They were always on the fringes of any after-school fight, egging on the would-be combatants, then sneaking in a taunt or a sly and anonymous kick once one of the boys was beaten to the ground. They were the bullyboys who always sought out the new kid for special harassment, or ganged together to hassle a lone black, brown, or "sissy" kid as he made his way home from school.

Life has not turned out as they'd hoped, but it's not their fault. Rush explains it to them every day. They believed in freedom, in liberty, in an "excellence" they never aspired to achieve, but claim to revere, nonetheless. They believed in the unfettered individual, but their dreams were denied because of the "liberal elites," those college-educated types who've done so much to dash their hopes and destroy their happiness.

They would be pitiable were it not for the fact that their deep and bitter unhappiness has caused the nation such grievous harm, such severe division, and such perilous hatred for the newly-elected leader Rush hopes will fail at just the time when the nation desperately needs him to succeed.