Of course the real purpose of the post was to point out why conservatives think and behave the way they do. I might add that they just aren't smart enough to be liberal. :-D
On 02/20/2012 10:32 PM, Emily Reyn wrote: > Whatever.....he is far too conservative to be president....no woman anywhere > should vote for Rick..... > > > ________________________________ > From: Bhairitu<noozg...@sbcglobal.net> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 7:54 PM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] What motivates goons like Rick Santorum? > > > > Why is little Ricky so AFRAID of sex? As Wilhelm Reich said in his 1933 > work "The Mass Psychology of Fascism": > > "Fascist mentality is the mentality of the subjugated "little man" who > craves authority and rebels against it at the same time. It is not by > accident that all fascist dictators stem from the milieu of the little > reactionary man. The captains of industry and the feudal militarist make > use of this social fact for their own purposes. A mechanistic > authoritarian civilization only reaps, in the form of fascism, from the > little, suppressed man what for hundreds of years it has sown in the > masses of little, suppressed individuals in the form of mysticism, > top-sergeant mentality and automatism." > > and > > "The formation of the authoritarian structure takes place through the > anchoring of sexual inhibition and sexual anxiety.... The result of this > process is fear of freedom and a conservative, reactionary mentality. > Sexual repression aids political reaction not only through this process > which makes the mass individual passive and unpolitical but also by > creating in his structure an interest in actively supporting the > authoritarian order. The suppression of natural sexual gratification > leads to various kinds of substitute gratifications. Natural aggression, > for example, becomes brutal sadism which then is an essential > mass-psychological factor in imperialistic wars." > > Sounds like our boy doesn't it? I'm sure he dreams of living in a > "Handmaid's Tale" society nightly. We hope Americans laugh this clown away. > > More on the subject by former Republican operative Mike Lofgren: > http://www.truth-out.org/right-wing-id-unzipped/1329147417 > > >
