Where Does the Angry Left Come From?

I have always wondered why liberals are so negative about everything. I have visited several liberal websites that seem to have a fair amount of traffic and they all seem to have a very negative out look. The Daily Kos is the most popular, I think, and supposedly the most read blog of them all, conservative or liberal.

If you read a conservative blog, like Power line, and then read the Daily Kos, the contrast is striking. I can understand that the liberals do not like President Bush. He stands for everything they can't understand, and therefore hate him. The most basic things about George Bush that draws the fire and ire of the liberals is his Christian faith, he is a conservative republican and he is from Texas. There isn't anything that he could do that would produce a positive response for the liberal media.

Their discourse is centered on a supposition of failure in everything that happens in this country, even if it isn't a failure. It's hard to understand how they can be so negative when everything is going so well; the economy is moving ahead at a faster pace then the experts thought it would and unemployment is at a ten year low. But it doesn't seem to matter to the angry liberal left, they attack every aspect of capitalism as the source of all of our problems.

To view the war as a mistake, after what happened in New York and Washington, is a mystery to me. No matter what media you read or watch, the left has something negative to say about the war and the premise under which we declared war on the terrorist in Afghanistan and Iraq. Even when things are going well, they refuse to acknowledge any news that relates to progress toward freedom and democracy, or how an entire nation, with our help, is struggling to rebuild itself after decades of oppression. Their reporting shows nothing but contempt and anger for our country and our efforts.

How did they get this way? What happened along the way in their lives to bring about such a dramatic force for viewing life in the most prosperous and generous country on earth from the inside of a spider hole? They accept all of the positive aspects of living here like freedom of speech, as well as all of the other freedoms guaranteed by the constitution, and yet they will attack the very foundation that give them the right to be who they are.

I continually wonder why so many people in this country have such a negative out look on life. They have all of the tools that anyone could want to make a good life for them selves, all they have to do want it bad enough. But for so many, for some reason, it's not enough to have the opportunity to achieve a good life, they must find fault with the process that gave the opportunity to succeed. They don't understand why they find their life to be in such disorder, even in success, but to relieve the stress of succeeding, they blame others for creating a process of opportunity that is unequal.

Maybe it's a self-loathing thing. Maybe it's a "Martyrdom Cult" that they belong to. I guess they rationalize their success by hating those that are more successful than they are and condemning the system that doesn't reward everyone equally. They drive the new care and live in the big house out in the country, but when they look in the mirror all they see is failure. It can't be their fault, it has to be someone else's fault, and they hate them for it.

I am very confused. How can so many people have a world view that is so dramatically different from reality. Do they see themselves as failures even when they have achieved most of their personal goals? Some professionals might call this a psychosis of some kind. Some refer to it as a paranoid schizophrenia.

History will show that from the very beginning of this nation, there were people that took it upon themselves to disrupt the efforts of our forefathers as they struggled to develop a government that would guarantee all of the rights to the individual that were denied them in the country they left to come here.

These same people that escape the tyranny of a monarchy, are the same ones that fought to remain under the status quo of a distant King. They had to be brought kicking and screaming into the new world. They hated self direction and taking responsibility for their own action, just like they do now, but now it's called the 'nanny state' where everyone gives up their right to self determination.

Apparently they are condemned to be who they are until the end of time. I really don't understand them. How can they always be angry and hateful? They hate who I am and what you are, and they hate themselves for what they have become.

They deny the past that brought them success, and believe in future that doesn't exist. How can anyone survive without a future or a past?