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Bachmann is a pillar of light and reason in th world of politics

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You live in a moon-bat haven that has 35 million people, but somehow sends the same idiots to Washington..over and over again. Your state is in financial crisis, homosexuals run the streets naked, you ban pets while embracing weed, any two mammals can be wed.

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I spent a gazillion dollars and still lost the race

Many candidates spent big on this election. Many lost, a few won and some didn't even show. Republican Meg Whitman dropped $142 million of her own money on the California governor's race. That's thought to be more than any other individual has ever spent on any single political race in U.S. history.

That's substantially more than the $102 million spent by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2009, and over double the $65 million spent by presidential contender Ross Perot in 1992.

For Whitman, the former eBay CEO, her personal spending amounted to $46.91 per vote. That still wasn't enough to beat challenger Jerry Brown, whose entire campaign spent about $7 per vote.

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"Violence Geeks”: a strong sub-culture of dysfunctional people who are dangerously obsessed on violence.

The modern definition of “geek”: a person turned inward, poorly socialized, who felt so little kinship with their own planet that they routinely traveled to the ones invented by their favorite authors, who thought of that secret, dreamy place their computer took them to as cyberspace -- somewhere exciting, a place more real than their own life, a land they could conquer, not a drab bedroom in their home.

Geeks tend to be fanatics (whether it be science fiction, gaming, electronics, computers, comics or something else). More than that, they are obsessed and fixated on something to the point of exclusion. They use their obsession to turn away from society and not to be part of it. But there’s more to it: pain. and confusion. Their obsession is a way to run away from both emotions.

But let's start with pain. Not fitting in hurts. While one can say that geeks are constantly bombarded with weird looks, uncomfortable reactions and fast changes of subject, realize that adults are a whole lot nicer to someone who is different than kids. Much of a geek's pain is based on memory of, rather than current misbehavior of, others. Yes, there is incredible pain in being poorly socialized. But instead of helping them overcome the past and adjust to the present, a geek's obsession promotes continuation of that pain.

Geeks also being 'turned inward' becomes important. On the surface, it's a paradox. How can you be turned inward when you're obsessed with something outward? One answer is that when you're obsessed with something, you never have to look at yourself.

Second, despite its seemingly outward focus, an obsession is based on internal orientation. If you understand a physics analogy, an implosion is usually followed by an explosion. The obsession is like the explosion that follows the implosion. You don't get to the point of obsession until you've been turned inward for a very long time.
It looks like a weird paradox, being inwardly oriented while being obsessed on something external. However, realize that a big problem about being inwardly oriented is that you run the risk of running into things about yourself you don't like while you're there. And this is where we encounter the coping mechanism of the geek. You take all your extra energy and fixate on whatever the obsession is so you DON'T have to see those parts of you. The obsession takes up all your time and energy so you don't have to see yourself. But at the same time, those paradigms that create, promote and sustain a lifetime of pain and confusion still drive you.

Putting that in plain English, it gives you a way to cope with the pain of how you think, without having to change ... how you think.
Whatever their particular obsession, geeks use them as a way to escape the chronic pain of being social misfits. They escape from this world into whatever they fixate upon. Their fixation takes them away from the problems of having to deal with unacceptable thoughts, feelings and emotions. Safely ensconced in their obsession, the pain of being an outcast dwindles. But more than that, their obsession takes them away from the confusion and anger that the cement airplane they call 'reality' doesn't fly.

There is a lot invested (via time, energy and emotion) into even the most dysfunctional world view. People actively reject information that is contrary to how they think the world should behave.

And along with that comes a LOTof anger. Anger that the world doesn't behave the way it's supposed to. This is common in all kinds of people. And some act on it, while some don't. Geeks, who are generally extremely passive, are NOT necessarily 'mellow.' In fact, if you scratch the surface, you'll often find a bubbling cauldron of generalized anger at people and the world. A lot of the anger comes from the fact that their version of reality doesn't fly very well. But instead of running diagnostics and repairing dysfunctional paradigms, thought processes and developing social skills, the geek does two things.

First, he fixates on something that he believes is controllable. This can be something where the 'rules' are not only clearly defined, but also are consistent and fixed (e.g., computers and electronics). OR it can be something where the parameters are established by others, but -- whatever happens -- those rules remain consistent within that narrow framework (e.g., gaming, science fiction, fantasy, role playing, etc.) What these 'other worlds' have in common is that they are consistent and understandable even if the rules are made up. This is where the geek retreats from the outside world.

Second, he makes the choice to move into a 'world' populated with people similar to himself (i.e., social misfits). Together they create a self-isolating subculture. And this subculture serves as both a refuge from society AND reinforces the geeks' dysfunctional paradigms. You don't have to 'change' if -- where you hang out – that kind of thinking is 'normal.' Just because the geek surrounds himself with a small group of like-minded people doesn't mean he isn't still dysfunctional. He remains incapable of interfacing with society as a whole. But now, he has found an excuse not to do anything about it.

A geek's obsession can become more real than reality. In fact, the time spent 'out in society' often becomes 'less real' to such a person. Think of things like jobs, social interaction, family and other trappings of society as something the geek has to endure between the times of engaging his obsession. Generally speaking, he's only 'half there' during such times. (BTW, did you just see another coping mechanism sneak by?) In a very real sense, the geek only 'comes alive' while engaging in his obsession and related fantasies

Geeks come in many different flavors. Most of them are harmless, poorly socialized, obsessed people trapped in their own heads. They are confused about how to interface with the rest of the world and in a lot of pain because of a lifetime of lacking effective coping skills.

In that sense, there's a lot to feel sorry about these guys. They really are lost in a confusing world that they don't understand. ). There's a lot of emotional pain, repression and anger in being a geek. But most of them spend their time safely pouring all their energy into whatever subculture they have gravitated to.

Violence Geek: Someone whose fantasy world isn't about reading the adventures of others. In his fantasy world, HE is Conan the Destroyer … about to unleash carnage and death on the evil world that hurt him. In fact, he's looking forward to it. All he needs is the right opportunity to give himself permission to go on a rampage.

Remember that anger, pain and confusion? While other kinds of geeks safely channel it into their obsession, this kind of geek's fixation IS violence. Unlike most geeks, these folks are actively looking to direct all that anger, pain and confusion outward. They’re just itchin' to find an excuse to come uncorked. They are fixated on the 'idea' of violence.'

At the same time, they are terrified of being victims of actual violence. They are an ugly blend of anger, aggressiveness, self-loathing, fear and paranoia. On the plus side, their fear keeps them in check. On the negative side, they are a case of mens rea addressed "To whom it may concern."

They are looking for that 'one, ultimate thing that is guaranteed to stop an attacker.' Here's the real hitch: And does it BEFORE the attacker can hurt them. In their fantasies, they come out of Ragnoraak unscathed, and not only without PTSD, but basking in afterglow.

The problem with violence geeks is -- as much as they go on about 'self-defense, and no matter how much they fantasize about heroic combat against hordes of slavering bad guys -- what they are looking for is revenge. After a lifetime of feeling inferior, a lifetime of backing down and a nearly pathological hatred of the idea that they are not ALPHA MALES, they're looking for payback. More specifically, they're looking for an excuse to 'go off' on someone.

That's what I meant by 'a case of mens rea ( guilty mind ) addressed to 'whom it may concern." While the guys who actually bullied them in school are long gone, they'll settle for anyone who even vaguely resembles their past tormentors.

Basically these guys are 'high centered' between their obsession with the idea of violence and their pants wetting panic of actually facing it. The sad thing is they are fixated on the juvenile concept that a "REAL man" has to be violent. Despite all their attention to the subject, everything is basically framed in the concept of a high school fight on steroids. They are best understood as a bunch of betas, pretending to be alphas -- but having no clue as to what it takes to be an alpha/leader.

They give themselves permission to become as emotional and obnoxious as possible. And they do this while expecting others to exercise self-control. These sort of people refuse to believe that they are being violent. (Of course, their definition of 'violence' seems to be "any level of force beyond what I am comfortable using to get what I want." Their yelling, screaming, poking, prodding self-rationalizing hissy-fit throwing behavior isn't violent. The other guy who slugs them for acting that way IS).

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