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In reply to the discussion: Think about the stupidest conservative you personally know, like a family member or Facebook friend. [View all]vlyons
(10,252 posts)Have you ever noticed how the really stupid ones have little or no filter on all the hatred that they spew? They see demons and scarey "socialists," who want to destroy freedom at every turn. I've been reading some of the Ven. Bokar Rinpoche's writings (a very high and well-respected Tibetan Lama), and I love his quote that "Anger makes you stupid." I've been thinking a lot about stupidity lately, mainly because I see so much stupidity in the RW political arena. It's not enough for them to have a political disagreement with progressives. Oh no, they have to demonize everyone with whom they disagree. And their disagreements aren't really even disagreements, because there is no analysis, no study of the causes and consequences of this or that policy. It's all fearful projections and emotional reactions to "the other." And angry denial and resentment that the world is constantly changing. It hasn't been 1952 for a really long time.
Anger makes you stupid.