Reply #103: Agreed it's not about hate

[marions ghost]

it's more about NOT setting ourselves up for any more abuse. Being EFFECTIVE in dealing with these twisted minds is the goal. You have to meet them on their ground, not expect them to come around just because you explain why they should. We're talking about disrupting negative emotional fixations, where polite logic or common sense approaches just don't work. Tuff Luv has to be very tough.

You said it well here, hsher:

"So I don't hate Republicans, per se. I think they can be dealt with without hatred. We should be exacting and firm with them, and completely ruthless and unrelenting. Just as you'd deal with a known alcoholic family member who's stolen from your purse before. That kind of response. You don't hate them, but you don't leave your purse with them anymore under any circumstances, you assume they are lying because they probably are, and you talk tough to them and back up your words with direct, ruthless, merciless action if they transgress. Only then does the alcoholic bottom out: when there's nobody left to accept his bs anymore, and the free ride runs out. We on the left need to shut our alcoholic opposite party in a small locked room and force them to bottom out. Hate doesn't have to enter that. Dispassion is actually the best policy. Hate only hooks you to their sickness, so avoid it."

Yep.