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Uneducated moron. Stole the election. Should not have been in the Whitehouse. War criminal. Right wing fanatic. Unamerican. War monger. Walking fiscal disaster. Draft Dodger. Worst President the US has ever seen. Lame Duck. Christian Fundamentalist. Future dictator. Wants to dismantle the constitution/carries out unconstitutional acts. Neocon
Communist. Over inflated Ego. Closet Muslim. Nazi. Personality Cult. Ineligible for President. Manchurinan candidate. Lame duck. Pacifist. Wants to dismantle the constitution/carried out unconstitutional acts. Unamerican. Obamatron/bot.
The paranoid spokesman sees the fate of conspiracy in apocalyptic terms—he traffics in the birth and death of whole worlds, whole political orders, whole systems of human values. He is always manning the barricades of civilization. He constantly lives at a turning point. Like religious millenialists he expresses the anxiety of those who are living through the last days and he is sometimes disposed to set a date for the apocalypse.
As a member of the avant-garde who is capable of perceiving the conspiracy before it is fully obvious to an as yet unaroused public, the paranoid is a militant leader... Since what is at stake is always a conflict between absolute good and absolute evil, what is necessary is not compromise but the will to fight things out to a finish. Since the enemy is thought of as being totally evil and totally unappeasable, he must be totally eliminated...
The enemy... is a perfect model of malice, a kind of amoral superman—sinister, ubiquitous, powerful, cruel, sensual, luxury-loving. Unlike the rest of us, the enemy is not caught in the toils of the vast mechanism of history, himself a victim of his past, his desires, his limitations. He wills, indeed he manufactures, the mechanism of history, or tries to deflect the normal course of history in an evil way... The paranoid’s interpretation of history is distinctly personal: decisive events are not taken as part of the stream of history, but as the consequences of someone’s will...
It is hard to resist the conclusion that this enemy is on many counts the projection of the self; both the ideal and the unacceptable aspects of the self are attributed to him.
Originally posted by KSPigpen
I don't want to be either. You didn't offer enough choices.
Can I be gray with thick skin?
Do you think that this is really what it's all about anyway? If we can't rally behind someone, we won't feel like we're part of the process. If we get too disconnected, we'll see the game from the outside. If that happens, how will they ever explain it to us?
Are you one of those idealists that believes your vote counts?
It's so much easier to pick somebody, preferably a boss, or a president, and give them hell for ruining the country. I t certainly can't be MY fault. Right?.....(crickets chirping) Right?