Why do Republicans delight in suffering?

[Crankie Avalon]

25. For all the reasons already mentioned, plus that...

...being able to dehumanize the many victims of a system helps to justify the existence of the few beneficiaries of said system. If you acknowledged benefiting from a system that victimized almost everyone else, you would have to conclude that you were something like a parasite attached to an otherwise healthy host. You would change your life. But that is very difficult. It is much easier to simply rationalize your position by saying that the host/victims are not healthy and somehow deserve to be victimized by your existence, anyway. Something is wrong with them and they SHOULD be victimized. When you can think like that, then you can believe that you are not doing anything wrong by being a parasite on the rest of society. On the contrary, you are "doing the Lord's work."