The Right Wing == the angry alcoholic bully in the family everyone has to placate

[Matariki]

and walk on eggs around. Always blustering, never rational.

[villager]

hmm... only meant to make the point once...

...but DU's software wanted repitition for emphasis, I guess...! ;-)

[villager]

1. absolutely --been true for years. So when do we "hit bottom," and begin recovery?

n/t

[Matariki]

4. when we set their bed on fire?

And by that I mean find a way to put Fox News out of business.

[Cleita]

12. The best way is to stop watching them.

However, since it's on every where you go, I guess we will have to get militant about asking that the channel be changed wherever you are, at the gym, in a waiting room or wherever it's on in public. We need to go on the offensive and talk to our Fox News watching friends and neighbors pointing out what a bunch of drek it is. I once worked at a fishing resort, where all the guests would retreat into their cabins and trailers, to watch Rush Limbaugh, who had a TV program then, when his show was on. I never said anything as I thought it was none of my business, but in retrospect I should have.

[Matariki]

21. Well I sure as hell don't watch it. But I can see the fall out in our society.

I think we need to target their advertisers. It amazes me that Glenn Beck is still on considering how much ad revenue they've lost. Seems to prove that they have an agenda.

[DCKit]

42. You so bad. I laughed my ass off. nt

[JoePhilly]

2. Add "prone to violence", and "thinks its your fault when he hits you".

[chimpymustgo]

6. You said it.

[Matariki]

And calls the police if you dare fight back

And *you* get cited with a domestic violence charge.

[grasswire]

3. true dat

My teabagger sister is always watching for anything anyone might say that is critical of the right. Yesterday she tried to tell me that the shooter is a "lefty" and enamored of Hitler. I said..........uh........Hitler wasn't a lefty. She was off to the races.

[Crankie Avalon]

5. Stop saying that or he might decide to shoot you.

Oops! You provoked him! The poor victim!

[seabeyond]

7. yup. nt

[The Backlash Cometh]

8. We've been saying it for years.

Though you said it better.

[liberal N proud]

9. I just walk away from those like that in my family

They will try to start arguments at family events and a just walk away.

Changed conversations to arguments on edit because that is all they ever provide, confrontation.

[Matariki]

10. Move to France?

America is the metaphorical house we're talking about here.

[liberal N proud]

11. Oui

pas une mauvaise idée

[Matariki]

14. Yeah, I might follow you there.

I'd like to see Fox go out of business. It would solve at least half our national ills. Until then...sommes-nous encore là?

[gatorboy]

13. More like the Molesting Uncle Chris Rock talked about.

"Where are the kids???? With their uncle??? Get those kids!!"

[DirkGently]

15. A great analogy. "Don't make Daddy angry when he's been drinking."

[Matariki]

16. The worse part is that I think they'd delight in the analogy.

Makes them feel powerful and important.

[rurallib]

17. and daddy is always drinking.

[patrice]

18. This country does not talk enough about the use of alcohol & psychotropic prescriptions. nt

[guitar man]

19. Or a spoiled child

They remind me of a bunch of 3 year olds. Mine! Mine! Mine!!! And they kick and scream any time anyone tries to tell them anything they don't want to hear...

[LiberalLoner]

20. OMG. You have said what I've been thinking. I grew up in a family with a raging, abusive

alcoholic man who loved guns (Infantry Officer.) The entire right-wing reminds me so much of that. And you know, an awful lot of right-wingers I've known personally have been alcoholics or otherwise mentally ill. (Not a scientific sample, I know, but it makes me wonder what the percentages are, you know?)

[Poboy]

22. Yep.

[LiberalEsto]

23. Time for an intervention, then

Americans have enabled them for far too long.
People have made excuses for them, and tried to help them cover up their bullying.
People have ignored them, or tried to minimize the problem, or tried to distract attention from it.
But when the alcoholic bully creates a trail of physical wreckage, it's time to send the bully to rehab.

[Matariki]

24. Yay! Re-education Camps!

:evilgrin:

[LiberalEsto]

25. The only problem is that there is no place

to rehab the hate and bullying out of these people. At least no place that I'm aware of.

[Matariki]

27. Sure there is. One month without Fox News and right wing radio

and a little bit of wholesome food and exercise and 99% of them will be as good and sweet as newborn babes.

[ljm2002]

26. Good analogy...

...and to take it a step further, those who stop kowtowing to the angry alcoholic bully are invariably punished by everyone else in the family, because they are trying to change the dynamics of the dysfunctional family. Everyone is used to the way it works, they cannot imagine anything being different, and they have already made their own accommodations with the situation. They see anyone who tries to change it as destructive, and also it puts them in a bad light for putting up with the unhealthy situation for so long. Allowing the new viewpoint to have validity will feel to them like losing face, and they fight it tooth and nail.

[Matariki]

28. Exactly. I was being serious in my analogy, not merely flippant.

Reading about Bill O'Reilly being 'angry' today - that was the image I had. The right is acting exactly like an alcoholic bully, deflecting any criticism by getting angry. So now, instead of talking about the underlying and real issue - we have to defend ourselves, or worse, apologize for making them angry.

[tom_paine]

36. Good God, that was prescient! +1,000! That deserves it's own OP!

I believe you just explained Chuckles the Sensible Woodchuck and the Obamapologists all at the same time.

Brilliant. And tragic.

I think I'll go numb my brain by watching some human misery on Wife Swap. :puke:

[RainDog]

29. actually, it is enabling to placate them - and that's not good for them or you

people can set limits and tell family members they may not do this or that or they will be asked to leave - the table, the home...

people can tell family members that they need to seek help and if they don't, family members can refuse to associate with the violent, drunk alcoholic asshole.

I wish we had that same opportunity in this nation.

I would be happy to tell the drunken bullies of the right that they are welcome to associate freely with themselves, but they are no longer welcome in my home.

A lot of people choose "intentional families" - or groups that they find kinship with through shared views of the world - and decide their families of origin are too toxic to continue to have contact with them.

Physically and verbally abusive siblings can be shunned - disinvited. I'm sorry we can't do that in politics as well.

Because, honestly, I do not want to live in the same nation as the teabaggers. They do not represent this nation and for them to pretend they have the right to make that claim is simply another form of their bullying.

[john donathon]

30. true

very true

[Tsiyu]

31. Be careful now

there are family members present on DU who think you're just being childish...you aren't supposed to notice his drunken fits, his waving his gun around, his violent invectives against those who disagree with him, the way he's bankrupted his family and doesn't care if they starve as long as he gets another drink..

HE can act any way he wants, but if you utter even ONE curse word in his direction you're as bad as he is!!!!!

[Matariki]

32. Not "as bad" - worse.

[Tsiyu]

33. True dat

I am ashamed of a lot of DUers today.

They are like Aunt Matilda, saying " Now shush! you don't want to upset Uncle Lout when he's in his cups, do you? Be good boys and girls or else he might get really mean!"


Sad enablers in my book.

[Motown_Johnny]

34. You never met my father, and I only met his brother (my uncle) twice

placating just doesn't run in this family







side note, I knew my other uncles and all my aunts quite well

[EFerrari]

35. Gmta.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=165764&mesg_id=165802

[HuckleB]

37. K &R.

[Ishoutandscream2]

38. Brilliant metaphor. K and R

[Mojeoux]

39. Kick and Highly Recommend!

[certainot]

40. the enforcer is talk radio with limbaugh leading, and now dupnik

is doing something braver than any GOP politician- standing up to limbaugh

the left needs to get dupnik's back

[tavalon]

41. The left is the codependent helper always willing to see the best

and give them another chance. After all, had we just been better, kinder, more understanding, we wouldn't have gotten that bullet lodged in our head.

[SharonAnn]

43. Great analogy. "angry, alcoholic bully"