# Where does right-wing paranoia come from?

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**Created:** [January 17, 2013, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-right-wing-paranoia-come-from/647551 "2013-01-17T21:17:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 18, 2013, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-right-wing-paranoia-come-from/647551/48 "2013-01-18T14:07:27Z")

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> I need to protect myself and my family from some theoretical tyranical government.

This is true. The second amendment and an armed populace are an important control against tyrannical government.

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> I need to protect myself and my family against violent criminals.

This is true. Would anyone argue otherwise?

Examples of this: Keeping a gun for defense. Locking your doors at night. Stopping newspaper delivery when you go on vacation.

Arguing that this is even a remotely debatable standpoint makes you look like a caricature of a liberal weenie who needs the government to care for him because he can’t look after himself.

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> I, as a Christian am persecuted by society (bonus points if you are white and male).

Christians are persecuted in our society in some ways. White males certainly are. White males are the first to be laid off by companies fearing lawsuits and the last (behind Asian’s, who get it even worse) to be admitted to college behind other races.

Denying that our society discriminates against white males is just simply denying reality.

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> There are vast numbers of lazy people looking to sponge off of my hard work.

This is very simply true as well. Look at all the stories recently coming out of MA with abuse of ABT cards for example. People are using the things at strip clubs and package stores.

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> Immigrants are destroying our society.

Destroying is a bit strong, but illegal immigrants who are here in the tens of millions certainly are a drain on our society and cost us much more then we get in benefits from them.

Again, not nearly debatable. You might argue that their children will be productive members of society, but the first generation of illegals we have now are overwhelmingly on public support at higher rates than US citizens. For an example see Auntie Zetuni.

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> There is something “off” about President Obama.

Too vague to mean anything.

Whatever this means, you could certainly say there was something “off” about Bush according to Liberals. He was hated by the left far more than Obama is hated by the right.

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> At some point, some sort of metaphorical “shit” is going to collide with a hypothetical “fan”.

The shit does hit the fan sometimes, you know.

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