# Grievance Politics **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 5, 2021, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grievance-politics/929715 "2021-01-05T15:24:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dandan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@Dandan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dandan)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grievance-politics/929715/1 "2021-01-05T15:24:52Z")
I’ve been scanning the threads for a series of posts that I saw on the politics of grievance, and may have blown right by it. Can anyone direct me to that thread? Dan ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grievance-politics/929715/2 "2021-01-05T17:29:51Z")
This is better suited to ATMB than GQ. Please limit commentary to the specific request by the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grievance-politics/929715/3 "2021-01-05T17:32:33Z")
Here’s a GD thread on “resentment politics” > [@Resentment Politics](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resentment-politics/925063): > > I believe resentment is a deeply underestimated force in society. I do not pretend to understand it but I have noticed how much it drives so many otherwise unexplainable decisions. On a personal level, I have as exhibit A, my younger sister, who has been nursing a grudge against most members of her immediate family since childhood. We were close for many years, until my aunt died and left a complex and difficult will, which finally gave her the opportunity to really hurt my oldest sister financ… ---
**Author:** ![Dandan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@Dandan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dandan)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grievance-politics/929715/4 "2021-01-05T20:28:04Z")
Got it - thank you Dan