Mounting evidence the Stupid Majority is becoming arrogant (I mean more arrogant).
The most recent example is an email with the Democratic seal circling a crying baby's face (it's been around for-ev-er). Ho-hum. But it made me wonder; does anyone else find it odd that this bunch are such Sore Winners?
There's already been one book written about the phenomenon, by author John Powers (Sore Winners from Doubleday). AlterNet has a couple of good articles with the author: Sore Winners by Powers himself and This American Strife an interview by Lakshmi Chaudry. A little taste from the interview follows:
Well, it's obvious we're past the 2000 election. What I think we're seeing now is the backlash from the punishing criticism Bush and his supporters took before this one, and the release of anger behind fears that he would lose. They're in the I-told-you-so phase. They not only want to wipe our faces in their win, they want us to get in line (after what they believe is our much-deserved abuse for causing them so much anxiety). Talk about babies...
It's just a petty winner-take-all mentality (a form of social Darwinism Powers also discusses in the American Strife article), and I think they are going to be enraged when we don't get in line, don't go away and don't become the wimps they thought John Kerry, and by extension, we, would be. Further, as the months go by and our coverage and criticism of their every democracy-destoying move ramps up in volume and multiplying media outlets they're going to get nuttier, so watch your back.
Assault weapons don't fire spitwads.
There's already been one book written about the phenomenon, by author John Powers (Sore Winners from Doubleday). AlterNet has a couple of good articles with the author: Sore Winners by Powers himself and This American Strife an interview by Lakshmi Chaudry. A little taste from the interview follows:
The title of your book comes from your observation that in fact these people at the top, especially Republicans, are "sore winners." Who is a sore winner?
It has always been an American fantasy that we are good winners. We win World War II and hand out Hershey bars and rebuild your country. But there has always been a strand in our culture of gloating about being wealthy.
I've never seen a time - at least in my lifetime - when successful people have been as angry and aggrieved or less generous. When Bush, who scrapes by in the 2000 election, then proceeds to rule as though he's won 90 percent of the popular vote, and then acts as though no one has the right to question him, that's classic sore winner behavior.
Well, it's obvious we're past the 2000 election. What I think we're seeing now is the backlash from the punishing criticism Bush and his supporters took before this one, and the release of anger behind fears that he would lose. They're in the I-told-you-so phase. They not only want to wipe our faces in their win, they want us to get in line (after what they believe is our much-deserved abuse for causing them so much anxiety). Talk about babies...
It's just a petty winner-take-all mentality (a form of social Darwinism Powers also discusses in the American Strife article), and I think they are going to be enraged when we don't get in line, don't go away and don't become the wimps they thought John Kerry, and by extension, we, would be. Further, as the months go by and our coverage and criticism of their every democracy-destoying move ramps up in volume and multiplying media outlets they're going to get nuttier, so watch your back.
Assault weapons don't fire spitwads.
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