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Originally Posted by link
It’s true.
I’m familiar with some on another forum that are similar. They are in their 70s or so and are among most adamant right wingers one could come across. They never put forth an argument that is supported by facts and evidently live to bash the other side. They are predictable and relentless antagonists who spend most of their days and nights on the web, on one forum. Air& is evidently cut from the same cloth.
I understand the web provides an outlet for all of us, but I don’t understand why some seemingly live only to antagonize. It clearly reflects a need for conflict, but to what end?
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I myself am really old and I am about the furthest thing from a Conservative as you can get. I have noticed that older folks do tend to bend that way, though, and I think it is because......
Picture yourself as the leader of something. In my case it was a bunch of oil refineries, pipeline, oil tankers and at any one time about 1,500 people. I did deals that would hit in the tens of millions every day and then have to put up with being called up at all hours of the night. It was my job, it was not my life, and although a lot of big time economics comes easy to me I am no longer in a position to rock anyone's world.
And that works for me!
But it does not work for a lot of people. They miss that power and the ability to call the airport and tell some jerk of a Pilot to torch up the jet because they had to go to California and see an Arab Sheik in Malibu. Just talking to the Oil Minister was not good enough; it had to be whom ever the head man of the week was.
And then there is the thrill that can only be obtained by giving orders to men in battle. Imagine... Everyone does what you tell them or you can have them shot to death. Buddy, that's power.
And then comes retirement and it is all gone. Some folks make the jump to no power and some don't.
When you know you have ability you are secure in that knowledge. When I was asked to see to it a delivery of oil would hit a berth at 20:03 on this date it would pull in at 20:03. No big deal. But if you are unsure of your ability you get stressed and start blaming everyone for your failure while the vessel is still on the high seas. When folks like that retire they really start freaking out over their lack of power, and they start trying to tell everyone how to live and how to act and asking why is your hair so long and.......
We had a lot of younger folks that were Conservatives working with us. We could never let them get near anything too expensive since they had such a 'victim' mentality in that if they broke something it was never their fault and why was everyone picking on them?
One manager took all the hard core Conservatives and put them on to the same team. Nothing got done, no one accepted any blame, and after a $250,000,000 loss they were all assigned to something else. I think it is just their nature.
So it starts young and never gets any better, but it all comes down to power. God forbid they should ever hit a problem they cannot yell at someone else to deal with, because that's about all they have.
Some folks can deal with power and some cannot.