Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said he isnât buying all that Democratic âjoyâ on display at this past weekâs Democratic National Convention in Chicago during a Sunday appearance with Jake Tapper on CNNâs State of the Union.
During their conversation, Tapper brought up the âdisciplinedâ and âwell-producedâ DNC this week that, as the journalist put it, âconveyed patriotism and unity.â Graham didnât see it that way.
âWell, I didnât see what you saw,â Graham told Tapper with a laugh. âIf youâre a Republican, you saw a hate fest. You saw a hate fest full of insults.â
âAmericans are not joyful when they go to the gas station and fill up their car,â he continued. âTheyâre not joyful when they make their mortgage payment. Theyâre not joyful when they go to the grocery store. People are hurting, and this whole joy love fest doesnât exist in the real world.â
To bolster his claim, Graham pointed to the gas prices, the state of the border, and inflation during Donald Trumpâs presidency when âthe world was not on fire.â
Heâs either lying or what he said gives us a look into his shitty perspective of the world. Either way such a miserable and pathetic existence.
I grew up in a pretty conservative household and we were literally raised that life is work and work is hell. By way of the transitive property, life = hell. Itâs taken a long time through various degrees of depression and Iâm still not fully grown out of it.
But yes, the entire culture and identity is about being miserable and persevering through it, even if that means making yourself and everyone around you more miserable to justify the perseverance.
Like the saying ânothing good comes free.â You could say the sunrise is free, but theyâll argue itâs not because you have to wake up early and waking up early is by necessity miserable so that the sunrise can be good. Theyâre brainwashed into thinking the only way a good thing happens is through suffering. Except the truly lost ones who only see life as suffering.
Wow⌠yeah I grew up this way too. But Iâm not sure I ever really put it all together the way you did just now. Iâm gonna have to think on this.
As an extension, if the conservative sees something free that people need, they will try to monopolize that free thing and then sell it. They call this innovation.
Everything in their world is transactional
So utterly grim that it perfectly explains the entire conservative movement.
âLife is bad. Anyone who isnât miserable and angry like me is cheating and must be destroyed.â