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Is everything Republican rail against just self loathing projection?
A few of them are true Captain Planet cartoon villains in their hearts (McConnel, MangoBastard), but for the most part yes.
Every single member of Donald's cabinet was comically evil. Like the sort of appointments that would happen in a comic book so that the reader knows for certain they are completely corrupt.
I'm yet to see a radical be against something and it not be because they hate themselves. Either they want others to suffer like them, or to struggle like they had to, or to not let the "unworthy" be more similar to them.
I'm pretty sure my mother, who is staunchly against abortion, is only against it because my grandmother offered to pay to abort me and my mother refused the offer and regrets it. She was 18 and her aunt then refused to pay for her college because she got knocked up. But you get what you get, and she got a gay son. 🤷🏻♂️
The evidence is mounting. Pretty sure this has been researched by psychologists, does anyone know of a good book about this?