I have never been a fan of Tracy Morgan. Too much id. Too much angst. He's not a bad guy...just wearing.
So when he commented on
Sarah Palin (youtube) as a masturbatory aid, I just took it as Tracy being Tracy.
But he persisted, and has most recently
deemed her the best
MILF ever.
At first I considered that he had found a hook that worked, something to get him the attention he so obviously craves. Then I had an epiphany.
And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought, my God... the genius of that! The genius!
He's created a kind of positive punishment to induce a sense of revulsion in the Tea Baggers toward their goddess.
Sexual attraction is primal. So are anger, fear and revulsion. They work at an id level. (Yes, we're going with Freud here because it's an easy shorthand.) And because those impulses are so primal, they are quite malleable. You can link fear and any object you choose to create a deep phobia with very little effort.
The same goes for revulsion. It's a little more complicated with sex because, strictly speaking, sex is low on the list of things absolutely necessary for individual survival. But when you link a low status impulse like sexual attraction to a specific person with a relatively low status impulse like revulsion you can easily create an effective cut off switch for those desires.
Here's how it might work:
Teabagger loves Sarah.
Teabagger is racist.
Teabagger has feelings of: hate/revulsion/fear toward black people who do not know "their place", aka: High Status Black Person.
Teabagger is confronted with the idea of love object Palin being "sullied" by h/r/f object High Status Black Man.
Teabagger becomes angered/revulsion/fearful and links those primal feelings with the image and feelings toward the love object Palin.
From this point on, whenever the love object Palin comes to mind so does the thought of her being "sullied" by the h/r/f object High Status Black Man.
Of course they can't or won't admit that they find the idea repulsive, and that repression only serves to strengthen the idea. You only have to look to the examples of some conservatives who have been discovered secretly acting out their repressed feelings with hookers, in bathroom stalls and by other means, to see how this manifests in real life.
If this "theory" is correct, we may find that the teabaggers will soon look for reasons to abandon Ms. Palin to her own devices.
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