right wingers and violence

So, do we need any more evidence for my general theory of the right wing mind? Not only is it evident that paranoia is the underlying psychology of these people, but that this paranoia leads to violent acts. To contract, when Bush "won" the 2000 election there was left wing response that was very dire and apocalyptic. I myself wrote about the potential for the Bush Administration to obfuscate constitutionally protected rights and undermine the democratic process (as they and the Supreme Court did in 2000). What more evidence do you need? But, my point is that despite all of the hysteria about Bush winning the election from the left, there were no violent acts in response to this. One has to wonder why that is from a psychological perspective and it points directly to the underlying psychodynamics of the differences that make up the right and left.

While the likes of Rush, Jeff Beck, Liddy, and the rest of them are mouthfuls of paranoid hatred and vindictiveness, individually they have only shown themselves to be violent against themselves(at least that's how it looks so far - for Rush he became an addict (repressed aggression/sexuality and/or aggression against the self) and Liddy is a convicted felon). The level of paranoia that I have referred to is more of a characterological trait rather than a pathological one (as in a paranoia as defined by the psychiatric diagnostic and statistical manual on Axis I. The fact is that the mouth pieces for the right wing movement have a much more insidious pathology at work, they are plain old psychopaths - using others for their own twisted means and fulfilling their own secretly violent fantasies that are fueled by fears over losing their status. That is, they see a black guy become president and their world view of white supremacy falls apart. Democracy is OK as long as your "kind" are in control (this is the case in all societies - Israel and Gaza are a really good example).


I do not believe the recent examples are the last we will see. I believe that there is a concerted effort on the part of the right wing mouthpieces to continue to use the less controlled (the tiller killers and the holocaust museum haters) to foster violence.

The left does not have the same psychological process that would lead to such solutions.

(More on this later)