The Carpetbagger Report » Blog Archive » John Gibson goes berserk — on air and off:
The question:”why are wingnuts so angry” is backwards, the question should be phrased “what attracts angry people to reactionary political positions”? Throughout history angry frustrated men (and usually predominantly men) gravitate to reactionary paranoid politics. It doesn’t have to be “right-wing” per se, in the ex-Soviet Union it was precisely these sort of people who were the strongest supporters of the Communist Party – because they could trust it to “beat” their enemies and anyone who threatened them by being different. Angry people need to find external enemies because no-one wants to blame themselves for their own unhappiness.
I hate it when other people get to the conclusion I have been groping for before me . . . nah, I’m not that clever, though I think this comment hits it on the head.