What does it take to be a good Freeper?

I'm feelin ornery - so help me list what it takes to be a good Freeper here.

I'll start with a few...

-Callous disregard for any fact outside of their scope of "knowledge".
-Complete lack of remorse.
-Propensity to call anyone left of Stalin " a freakin' liberal".
-Owns the complete Toby Keith CD collection.

Let me know what YOU think makes a good Freeper...

Have some fun.

And a flag sticker for their car window.

....separate fact from fiction.

It's a sign from GOD!!!!

to get even

Lots and lots of donuts.



...and apparently a deep-set fear of orthodontics.

It's Miller time!

any word that has more than two letters.

Your rite!

Lack of independent thought.
Receives political views through radio and television talking heads.
Fear of books (other than the bible and anything by Mann Coulter).

cheap whiskey.

with your head up your ass.

of incest-related pregnancy in your family tree and a paucity of teeth. ;-)

Good word. I'll add that to my repetoire...

;)

Willing to french kiss Ann Coulter with their eyes open.

Thinks Laura Bush dresses too fancy.

Listens to Amway tapes while commuting to school on the short bus.

Gets chastised by his host for not wearing a costume at a halloween party while dressed up as a liberal.

Donations to Jimmy Swaggart are taken as payroll deductions.

using the other to maximize their fantasy experiences about Ann Coulter or any other bleach blonde bimbo that appears as a talking head on FOX News.

...except that narrow band of small-minded, knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing neaderthals known as "your fellow freepers".

others -

a need to be liked
a need to blame others for your own inadequencies
lazy thinking

This must be their leader!


Edit Note: Someone in the St. Louis Cardinal's Front Office must be crining to see a person with obvious low IQ holding a sign with the word Moron spelled incorrectly and wearing a St. Louis Cardinal Tee-shirt.

:kick:

fear of change

fear of becoming "no longer the top dog" (the white male), and belief that if one person rises up, someone else must rise down, instead of being able to accept that all people could be raised up equally; also includes fear of losing their lifestyle if they no longer are the dominant species/voice/race/whatever.

fear of things that are different because they are unwilling to accept (or their insecurity makes them unwilling to accept) that other people being different isn't a personal attack. That is to say, instead of witnessing someone/thing different and saying, "Hey - if that suits you, go for it; it's not for me, but that's okay", they say "Hey - why do you have to be that way? Why can't you be like me? What's wrong with being like me? You think you're better than me?" (this is a big issue for the freepers)

fear of loss: the assumption that whatever they have, someone else wants to take it from them, and especially that lax liberal thinking will allow that someone to take their stuff.

fear of the future and present: A focus on the past, through a lens clouded with nostalgia for a time that never was, but which they are convinced existed, and are convinced was bucolic and almost Eden-like.

fear of being wrong: An inability to realize that Jesus was a liberal, who calls us to embrace all people, to meet them in the moment in their joy and in their need, and to forgive and be peaceful. Also included in this is the fear that Christianity might not be the one true religion, and so the entrenched stand on forcing Christianity into the government, so that in the case that if the religion is wrong, at least no other one is allowed.

fear of unclarity: A mind pre-occupied with causality and blame placing, a black-and-white mindset, and an idealogy that wants to use Occam's razor on everything (including international relations, immigration, and economics); instead of just letting things be what they are, or looking at things holistically in all their ambiguous splendor, they assume there is a very simple and explainable reason, and therefore a simple and explainable solution, to every ill and problem in society.

In many ways, I feel sorry for them - not when they do great destruction, but at least if one goes to freeperland (or listens to some of my rightwing, but dear, friends) one can sense an awful lot of fear driving their thinking, and I sometimes feel sad for them for not being able to adjust to the world and embrace the things that are, instead of constantly nostalgically driving for the idyllic past.

If so, YOU ROCK!

Seriously though - well said. And sadly true.

And sometimes I just go for ribald... :-)

thanks for the compliments! That's a post I will be saving - kinda proud of what I wrote there.

And indeed, it really is sad. Angry as they make me, compassion sometimes breaks forth, and I realize they are really trying to hold on to something (i.e., power) which, even if they never had it, they feel they did, or at least want people like them to have it.

That was my take too, but much better written than I ever could have. Indeed, it is fear, and the belief in a zero-sum world.

Fear of the inevitable downfall of their antiquated political party and belief system.

... of your SUV, with the "Impeach Billary" bumper sticker fading on the back bumper...

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more
uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is
right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been
the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men
who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly
civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in
all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure." - H. L. Mencken


So there's another shot at the freepers - they NEED moral certainty, and they NEED to be sure of everything. Though as I said before, I think that is very much based on fear and insecurity. Though, I'll also add, tehre's not really any way to prove it, because they'll never say that's the reason.

"good freeper" is right up there with "nice child-molester" in my book.

1) A good education that includes not only the basics, but a desire to learn abstract thought and induction/deduction.

2) An ability to consider all sides of a question by increasing your knowledge base further if necessary and coming to a reasoned, rational conclusion regarding your belief as to the truth/falseness of a hypothesis.

3) Empathy and the ability to understand others difficulties are not like your own, necessarily, and tolerance is required.


NNNNOOOOOTTTTT!

Not. Not.

(Another not added because a double negative is so messy.)

:kick:

You have to be a bad human.

Dusted with a healthy dose of paranoia and narcissism. Wing nut Republicanism is an ideology for losers.

lack of any minimal level of insight