Geen schoner vermaak dan leedvermaak

While the dutch proverb above isn't likely to be familiar to most, any observer of modern American politics should be right at home with the sentiment.

Here's a quote from the DailyKos:

"But rarely has the sense of schadenfreude been more poignant to me than when reading the latest Economist article today about the woes of the Republican Party and American conservative movement in general."

And there's plenty of similar from it's Redstate counterpart.


While it was once noted that the pleasure derived from else's misery was solely the bastion of Germans and sociopaths, it has become eerily commonplace amongst the voice of political bloggers. While I am not hostile to all German influence, this is one that I find particlarly worrisome as it is utterly without constructiveness.