Beldin:
Re: “OCU is scared to death...”
Whether consciously or not, you just hit on the key reason that people become Democrats. They're afraid.
Democrats are emotional juveniles who transitioned seamlessly from their mothers' teat to that of government. They don't believe they can make it on their own. They're afraid to try; they resent like hell those who aren't needy and need no help. Such people stoke their already overwhelming sense of inferiority.
Now, there ARE Democrats who became that way through guilt ("we don't deserve what we've got!"), through inheritance ("my entire family is Democrat, so I am too"), through lust for power or money ("vote for me so I can enrich myself"), and through mental illness/stupidity (no explanation needed), but far-and-away the main cause of this sickness called Liberalism is an absence of confidence. It may or may not be rational. OCU doesn't believe in himself even now, despite having done okay for himself and his family. I think it's because of his obesity. clo and zzfart are failures. Their resentment of anyone who is better than themselves - and that's a LOT of people - is palpable. Their sense of inferiority is rational. They ARE inferior. Without government's help, they'd be dead in six months.
The Republicans I've known are just the opposite... inclined to try anything and always believing in themselves.
So, to hear you say that OCU is "scared to death" doesn't surprise me at all. You could write a second post about zzfart being "scared to death," and then a third about clo. They're poor, frightened little kittens, too stupid to realize that the government programs against which they snuggle are actually snakes, more than happy to gulp them down when the mood strikes.
And it's almost dinner time...