You do realize you have pretty much managed to exhibit every single right wing paranoid cliché in the entire catalog? And at one time or another you’ve brought up every single one on this forum, with a perfectly straight face. Not one malignant symptom has been left out. The only thing that’s missing is black helicopters.

You’re not a conservative, TB. You are a Hollywood stereotype of a conservative, a bad TV sitcom caricature of a conservative. How can you blame me for a little pop psychology to attempt to explain the vast depth and breadth of your delusion–not to mention the arrogant and insulting smugness you employ in trying to cram it down everyone’s throat? You see, TB. You’re not just a wingnut, there are other conservatives here. You are a particularly abrasive and impolite one. Only your old pals SDAI and Gbaike came across anywhere near as unpleasant and bad mannered.

So maybe you haven’t been damaged by the last few years after all. Maybe you were fucked up from the start.

By the way, your standard Drive-By Psychological Analysis is getting old, constructing some mythical archetype of your own and trying to shove me into it like toothpaste back into a tube.

It makes no sense in the first place. Think about it.

My political ideas are the same now as they were thirty years ago. They were the same when Ford was President, Carter, Reagan, Bush I, Bush II, and Obama. They were the same during Stagflation, the Roaring 80s, all the recessions, the Roaring 90s, and the Crash of 2008. They were the same when I was making six figures and getting stock options as they are right now. Dude, you were there for a lot of it on these forums. Remember?

Remember when you and others were telling me that my head was screwed up because I didn’t know what it was like to be broke?

Your scarecrow version of me now doesn’t hold up, any more than the opposite one did. I’m not sure why it’s important for you to believe I’ve been “damaged” by the last few years, but you seem to enjoy drive-by psychology. You give it a try.

I am a man at peace with himself and his world. A man who doesn’t feel the need to go whining to complete strangers and complain to them how conspirators and traitors have worked tirelessly to take away from him what he is entitled to.

This country is full of middle-class, middle age losers like you. You bought into the program and you got taken for a ride–no disgrace there, but you’re too stubborn and proud to admit that you were lied to, and that you believed the lie, and now that it isn’t working out the way they promised you have to blame someone else for your problems and failures. But most of all you hate yourself for your inability to see it coming, especially when people like me have been telling you you were heading for a fall all along. It’s not my fault it happened, and certainly not my fault you didn’t see it coming. It is yours.

You don’t want to know what happened. You don’t want to know why or how it happened. What you want is for me to tell you it wasn’t your fault. Well, I’m sorry. I’m not going to do that. I might have been polite enough not to bring it up, but you have mistaken my compassion for stupidity, my empathy for cowardice, and my counsel for weakness.

Fine, you’re on your own. You’re a big tough Libertarian who has all the answers. You don’t need any help from me. Go fuck yourself.

You and Bowser have a PhD. in bashing the Conservatives.

Truthfully, it isn’t like any of us here have solved any of the world’s problems.

..okay…proceed.

Very instructive.

At least on my browser, I can flip open all of the comments at once to look at them.

And yeah, your crowd is the only one that has family values, a work ethic, pay their bills on time, accept responsibility for their actions, and believe in law and order and freedom. It must be true because you feel the need to remind the rest of us all the time.