I see anger with the establishment. I see anger versus the rest of the world except Russia. I see anger with the courts. Why is it like this?
I see anger with the establishment. I see anger versus the rest of the world except Russia. I see anger with the courts. Why is it like this?
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They aren’t, or not most of them. The ones who are angry get all the press, and those opposed to them paint them all as angry. Just being upset and stating ‘i don’t like…’ are described as full of rage.
The really angry ones are the ones torching Teslas, but they aren’t Republicans.
Most of them aren’t angry. But the ones who are angry have complete control of the party: they win all the elections; they control the conservative media; they get appointed to the powerful positions. It’s been a gradual transformation — back in 2007, for example, the "Tea Party" was a bunch of outsider weirdos, the party was in the middle of a 36-year string of nominating friendly guys for President, and Tucker Carlson was still trying to be pleasant. I’m a moderate, so I always find angry people to be annoying and counter-productive — that’s kind of the moderate credo. But as you go further right, you’ll find more and more people who just decided to stop being annoyed at the angry people, and start viewing them as entertainment.
Anger with the way things have gone for the last several democrat run administrations. Over time these admins have usurped much of the stated purpose of the departments they have infected. The current administration is attempting to fix these oversights. In the old days. (Back in my day….said in an old man voice) departments such as the cia, fbi, doj, fema, etc were agnostic when it came to party but over time these have been, IMO, taken over by the far left progressive movement in the democrat party. The US is not Europe but the liberals have been attempting to make so over a few of their administrations. What you are seeing is a fight back to reinstate more core US beliefs and departmental neutrality…as govt should be.
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For older conservatives, life has been a long string of liberal victories in which America lost multiple wars, lost its position as the world’s largest creditor to become the world’s largest debtor, lost its position as a manufacturing leader, lost a focus on racial equality and had it replaced by the idea that white people deserve to be discriminated against, lost the culture wars as America embraced ideas that predictively lead to high divorce rates and high rates of unwed motherhood and the loss of family focused society.
Other than the Cold War victory (that Bush wisely refused to have a big celebration for), Gulf War I, and a brief balanced budget under Gingrich (that Clinton took credit for), life for older conservatives has been a long string of backstabs and losses.
Much of that was aided by a left leaning media. The response to that media was the 1980s growth of right-wing media and later Fox News, both of whom found a large audience of people fed up with left wing bias and who were ripe for capture. Right wing media found there was a lot of money to be made by stoking anger and the left has given them plenty of fuel for the fire.
As a republican, I’m not angry per se. but I do see how globalization, mass unchecked immigration and our higher debt is leading to a crisis.
It is not our job to take care of the world’s needy and poor (and Europe is slowly leaning that also, with the rise of right leaning parties all over Europe). I’m not anti-immigrant, as much as the media would like you to believe, but I want our immigrants to have skills and buy into American values. Not every immigrant needs to be a doctor or engineer, but to act like we MUST take in a mother of two who is almost certainly going to rely on government services for years and who has never paid into the system – I don’t buy that we need to take her in solely because of empathy. For as much shit as America gets about their healthcare system and they way we treat the poor, we do have a massive welfare system and that is why people are coming here, it’s not a good life, but they won’t die, and it’s on the back of Americans like me who pay into that system and don’t see anything in return. I don’t hate immigrants I promise you, but I don’t want them leaching off the system. Just like any other country, we need people who are going to be a net benefit, not a net detriment.
As far as our anger towards other countries, we see our fellow Americans struggling. The left wants to hold the same competing thoughts at the same time – that the Republican Party is only made up of rich people but at the same time, a bunch of back country racist hicks who barely make anything and depend on government services. Most MAGA people are lower middle class to upper middle class, but see how our fellow Americans struggles, while we send billions overseas. I personally think some foreign aid is warranted, I.e. to have leverage where we need it, but I also see the anger of people struggling here while we send billions to Ukraine. Republicans don’t want Russia to win except a few who are vocal on the fringe who the media give all the airtime to. But we do question why we send so much to other countries when we need that money here.
As far as the establishment goes, we LIKE what DOGE is doing. The government is far too bloated and far too slow, and again if you’re middle class and up, you don’t get anything from the government. We don’t get handouts, we don’t get breaks, we pay in and receive nothing in return. So we like it that the government is getting downsized because what do they do for us? I’m not anti-welfare. Government has a place, but the government is much too bloated and if we downsize it, we hope we at least get a break on our taxes, because we don’t see anything otherwise.
Angry? I’m not angry, but if I were, I’d say:
Getting taxed without representation makes people angry.
Seeing your tax dollars be spent on things that you intellectually or morally oppose makes people angry.
Being told you are a racist, sexist, homophobe every time you disagree makes you angry.
Being gaslit by politicians and the media makes people angry.
Seeing your cities burned down by mostly peaceful protests makes people angry.
Watching inflation drastically drive up your cost of living makes people angry.
Seeing Hunter Biden get away with gun crimes and tax fraud makes people angry.
Watching your daughter get beat in sports by a biological male makes people angry.
Feeling powerless makes people angry.
I’m not a Republican. But I am a conservative and I do vote for mostly Republicans. I’m not angry.
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This has got to be a fake post. Republicans and conservatives are not angry at the world around them. Just take a look at what the democrats and liberals are doing. Republicans believe in fair and equal treatment, Republicans believe in the law and the Constitution, and we’re finally getting that..
Anger isnt the right word. Annoyance is. The annoyance that a parent has for a child that was told by the parent to stop doing something but the child keeps doing it, even at the detriment/harm of the child.
Depends greatly on your news sources. I watch a lot of conservative media (including Fox and various websites and podcasts) mixed with a lot of liberal sources too for contrast, and I don’t think we’re an angry group at all.
I think we’re portrayed that way a lot, but when I get together with my friends who are also conservative we don’t just angrily rant and rave.
If anything (at this point in time) I think conservatives are better at divorcing their political beliefs from their personal lives much better than my liberal friends. For republicans: you don’t agree with me? Alright, you’re entitled to your opinion. But with libs in recent years it’s become: you don’t agree with me? You are wrong, evil, racist, masagonyst, etc…
Just my personal take as a fiscal conservative socially liberal independent who has lived in both blue and red areas…
I know, right? The MAGA crowd is so angry all the time. Second is how do you handle being so paranoid that people are out to get you or that everyone out there is taking advantage of you?
Acting like conservatives are generally more angry than leftists is disingenuous
Knowing my tax money is being used to show women in 3rd world countries urinals as art is one reason I’m less than pleased.
I would say we are very much the less angry, silent majority. It’s only the loud rednecks making the news that would make you believe otherwise.
Fiscal policy and immigration policy are 90% of our qualms. Everything else is just over politicized BS.
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Imagine you live under a regime that isn’t quite oppressive but never does what you think is good policy. Would that upset you even a little?
Now imagine society vilifies you for your beliefs, culture, even immutable traits like skin color or sex. Would you be upset then?
Fox News has absolutely infected the nation with its founders bullshit. Rupert Murdoch was such a huge fan of this when he was in college that his nickname on campus was Red Rupert. He had a bust of Vladimir Lenin on his bureau.
Well the “establishment” destroyed our economy save for the top 1%, making it very difficult for people in my generation to ever buy a home so some of that anger is warranted.