Why do right wingers always worry about building a bunker?

[LoganW]

Has anyone ever heard the right wingers preach that they just NEED their guns to prevent a dictatorship from rising up, (this was especially true when Clinton was president) or to prevent an invasion from oh say Iraq?

It occured to me that these same people also always seem to mention a desire for a personal bunker with enough food/water to last a year. If you browse some right wing sites you'll see this a lot.

Now.... why exactly are people who go around telling everyone they will be on the front lines in such situations always so concerned about having a bunker with a long term food/water supply? One wonders how they'll be fighting for country while cowering in a bunker. Has anyone else noticed that?

Right wingers are truly pathetic. They sit around talking about how we need to defend the country, but if it ever came down to it they'd be the ones in a backyard bunker while everyone else did the fighting.

[Jim Sagle]

1. They've got Hitleritis of the brain, that's why.

[Gogi]

2. Because they know what they would do to their neighbors in a national

crisis and they don't want it done to them!

[AutumnMist]

3. I Had A Wonderful

80 year old liberal neighbor who had a bomb shelter and a bunker in her backyard. LOL. She was awesome. They had christmas lights and bubble lamps all over in the bomb shelter. We would BBQ and hang out. Not that this story has much to do with your post, it just reminded me of those lazy summer nights in the bunker. Eating hamburgers and listening to The Mama's and The Papa's. :)

[pscot]

4. Read "the Burrow" by Kafka

Sums up the Freeper mental state to a fare-thee-well.

[RubyCat]

5. It gives them a sense of security to know that they can barricade

themselves in their own private bunker when armageddon comes. They were actually disappointed when the Y2K bug didn't bring the world crashing down around them. They were looking forward to using their stockpiled weapons to shoot the zombies that would inevitably walk the earth afterwards.

[cestpaspossible]

6. lol

I really did laugh out loud

[murdoch]

7. Giuliani

Giuliani used to be obsessed with building a command-and-control bunker in case of an emergency in New York City. He spent millions on it. Guess where he decided to put it? Yup, the World Trade Center. The irony of it is so large, it's almost unbelievable - it was I believe building seven, WTC-7.

Michael Moore talks about how Bush's cousin helped him make Roger and Me in one of his books. The cousin made "The Atomic Cafe" about the bomb and the Cold War. One scientist interviewed said he was worried about fall-out shelters, because it gave people a false sense of security about an all-out nuclear war, when the only real security would be some kind of political detente preventing that from happening.

That said, I have read a lot of history, and over history republics which have lasted for centuries have fallen into dictatorships time and time again. Or have been invaded by a foreign power. So I actually am sympathetic to some of the 2nd amendment advocate positions, although a lot of them are loony. In a current sense, such precautions are unnecessary, but in the long view, with such amendments from two centuries ago in place, I think it is a positive thing for people in the decades and centuries to come. Arms should belong to the citizens, the working people, not just some alien dictatorship, feudal state or even democratic republican government.