re: #238 piratedan

Well there are factors beyond “milking the rubes”

There’s also malice
and stupidity.

If you have ever heard Ann Coulter in an unguarded moment, you realize that she’s one of the stupidest rubes on the planet herself. She drinks ALL of the kool aid she really knows less than nothing.

I don’t know to what extent the others have the same excuse, but I wouldn’t be surprised.

But you also have to be missing any positive empathy to buy the crap they believe. I say “positive empathy” because hostility is a kind of empathy - it’s a will to make other people suffer, and you have to know their feelings in order to enjoy their suffering. It’s unfortunately a natural state, animals do fight after all. These people seem to have plenty of that.