After a particularly nasty day at work with lots of unresolved and un-reconciled issues, the individual anger addict will lash out at his/her spouse and offspring, or safer yet, indulges in kicking the family dog, or engage in otherwise (self)destructive and self-defeating behaviors without coming to any constructive or acceptable solution.
This is the quintessence of inappropriate anger behavior.
I am not medical professional and certainly no psychologist or psychiatrist, but having voluntarily gone through extensive anger-management training/therapy myself, I do see distinct commonalities between the behaviors of hopeless anger-addicts and the way the American electorate commonly carries itself.
Anger addicts are strange creatures who for the better part navigate through life more or less undetected. They are often very productive, appreciated for their passion and driven attitude(s) and basically often well liked.
However, once a triggering event occurs or their sense of insecurity is invoked, they flip their lid and turn into ugly, raging and totally unreasonable creatures who promptly forget their coping mechanisms and blindly lash out against that what presents itself as a vulnerable target.
That same vulnerable target may not be the real cause of the triggering event or the debilitatingly felt insecurity, however.
More often than not, the chosen target could potentially offer a constructive and reasonable solution, but by virtue of its own measure of reason, it requires reason to be present.
The anger addict does no longer respond to reason and is only interested in satisfying and venting his/her own essentially unreasonable rage.
The feelings are very real and strong, but the resulting (self)destructuive actions make absolutely no sense whatsoever.
I see this a lot here in America and I have come to believe that it is something that is deeply ingrained into the human psyche in general and in the American one in particular.
For a Nation that so firmly believes in its own excellence and superiority on ethical, moral and humanitarian grounds as well seeing itself as constituting the Global pinnacle of meritocracy, I find that this Nation has a lot and I mean a big-a$$ whole lot of anger-management issues.
The American elctorate, much like the earlier mentioned individual anger-addict is frustrated and confused by the seemingly endless process of coming to brass tacks due to the dichotomy of having inherently deeply schyzophrenic and extreme bi-polar patholgies that exist in the American political system.
On the one hand, there is a party that is obstructionist to the point of being clearly treasonous and intentionally negligent to its duties to the American citizenry as a whole. This party rules by the idea that it is their way or the highway and is not above distorting any semblance of truth by rejecting and/or ridiculing uncomfortable rules and facts in favor of nebulous and at very best questionable faith-based dogmas. It is by its nature inclined towards 'Might makes Right' and it practices this in the most crude and hamfisted fashion, more often than not just for the sake of being crude and hamfisted. It also has embraced the notion that this country is not a necessarily a democracy, but instead a republic first and they firmly believe that the purest form of governing this nation, is by the dictatorship of the pocket-book and the ceaseless pursuit of greed and rapacity regardless of consequences. In effect, the fattest pocket-book gets to be right, even when, or even better; because, they are so deeply wrong. In its view, poverty is caused by sin and needs to be exploited to the maximum and wealth is a God given justification for that same exploitation. It employs all means to narcissistically self-justify, bully and contort to get its way at any cost and it is firmly playing to the basest instincts of the lowest common denominator to get its way.
This would be the Republican party.
On the other hand there is the party that is, as seen in the light of its opponents behaviors, unreasonably reasonable and polite. It firmly believes in the common good and punctually allows application of all rules, sub-rules and sub-sub-sub rules. It sticks with singleminded tenacity to clearly underbuilding of its ideas and causes with scientifically sound and academically pure reasoning and undeniable facts. It is a stickler for allowing their opponent the benefit of the doubt and strictly adheres to turning the other cheek when brutally and unjustly slapped, even when it knows that the turned cheek will be the recipient of a forcefully delivered brass-knuckled fist. Poverty is seen as an unfortunate condition that is to be remedied by having the strongest shoulders bear the heaviest load so that all benefit. In the ground of the matter it is pathologically eager to achieve approval from its opponent, which we all know it will only achieve on a particularly chilly day in Gehenna. In fact it is afraid of success and will prefer to fail in order not to be found rude or even remotely unpleasant.
Its way of gaining support is by appealing to the higher instincts and calling to intellingence and intellect.
This would be the Democratic party.
The contrast could not be greater, but as with everything doing the right thing is not necessarily the easiest or easiest to undertand and that is where the other aspect of the American electorate comes into play. Basically the American electorate is ignorant and lazy. It prefers to be spoonfed and as long as what it is fed tastes nice, it can't be bothered by the fact that it might be pure and unadulterated poison. It will gladly swallow that what is making it sick or worse, just to avoid having to even think about it. Ignorance is bliss and self-interest can be so boring and unsexy.
So here comes this former soft-porn centerfold Scott Brown (if I'm correct), who clearly went through great length in learning from that other slick dachshund who at one time weaseled himself into the senate by means of blithe and moronic voter-retardation, Norm Coleman. Playing from exactly the same page, by providing the females in the electorate wet-undies and the males with bad-boy sympathetic erections by offering hollow promises based on serving the interests of the already too well heeled and grossly financially benefitting entities that bought him.
Thus it comes to pass that again and with apelike agility, America finds itself on its merry way to avoid to making changes to what that serve everyones very best interest and continues to trudge along in its dishonorably servile submission to the Medical Mafia which extracts more than twice the price for less than half the service that other, in this case, truly civilized nations do and have done for well over half a century.
Bravo and well done America!
It is a truly magnificent achievement!
A true pinnacle of merit and virtue!