Maybe this is obvious to some people, but it’s not obvious to everybody and I think it can be easy to forget sometimes that a lot of conservative republican behavior only makes any sense when you understand that they really do, genuinely, sincerely, unshakably feel that they are victims who directly suffer the entire time that any “leftist” is president.



They have no reason to feel that way, no, they can’t usually explain how exactly they were being slighted and it’s certainly not your responsibility to fix them or sympathize with them, but millions of them definitely believe with dire certainty that the policies of “the other side” exist primarily to “take away” their freedoms and their wealth and “give them” to a bunch of other interest groups for personal gain.



This is why they say things like “suck it up buttercup!” and “it’s OUR turn now!,” because in their minds, they’re just “playing fair” when they accrue more power and more wealth through the exploitation and oppression of others. They actually think that’s what everyone else is doing, all of the time. They can’t even fathom an outsider having anything but selfish intentions at their expense. They just think that’s just what politics are.

