Political anger

Political anger

I am not bitter, angry, or resentful, and even if I were it wouldn't be due to being a freedom advocate. I doubt many freedom advocates are really angry, regardless of how blunt their words may be. Yet that is how we are usually characterized by advocates of coercion. It is how they justify sending out legions of LEOs to kill us for "the common good" (they are not nearly that honest about their position, of course).

What the statists see as "anger" is simply self-assurance and confidence. There is no reason to be angry about society's continuing descent into malignant statism. Neither is there any reason to be wishy-washy when stating the plain truth. Some people are likely to see the clear expression of the truth as "anger", especially if it challenges their tightly held (but wrong) notions. Others believe if they can throw you off-balance, or delegitimize you in the eyes of others, by claiming you are "angry", they have won by default. Prove them wrong again. After all, it makes no sense to be angry at the rabid dog coming at you.

When you speak the truth it often frightens those who only have emotionalism on their side. Since many of them depend upon anger for getting their desires embraced by "the majority" (and then enforced as "law") they develop projection which makes them think everyone is as angry and hateful as they are. It is like when you speak with conviction to a person who is in the wrong, they often claim you are shouting when you are not. Being so wrong is painful; trying to avoid facing it makes one overly sensitive.