As if I didn't hate republicans enough before, this election has

[graywarrior]

really got my dander up about them. God I hate them. I HATE THEM.

Just sayin'.

[seabeyond]

1. i will say it again. they are my hubby, father, brothers and friends

i dont "hate" them. nor anyone else. i am pissed at them though, disappointed and sometimes disgusted.

btw, not with hubby. he voted kerry 2004 and claims himself not a republican anymore. don't know how much i believe the no more. his to do

[graywarrior]

2. Well, maybe the feeling I have can be descirbed another way

But when I grind my teeth to stubs listening to them, I don't know what else to call it.

[seabeyond]

7. i dont listen to the ones on tv. and the ones on the street i listen to

well, a pretty smile and being informed, i walk away more positive than not.

i go into terret syndrome when watching them on tv, so health of the family, i don't watch. lol

[durrrty libby]

5. Like you, I use to take the high road and say I don't hate them

No more....My Truth.....I Hates em all!

:evilgrin: :mad: :boring: :spank: :thumbsdown: :nuke: :banghead:

[seabeyond]

8. your truth, wink. i hear ya. it is all good......

but this is simply my declaration. not to change minds

[blue cat]

3. Me too

Between the docudrama that will blame Clinton for 911 and the attacks on the Wilson's, I'm even madder than I was which was pretty damn mad. And the fact that they won't even play commercials proves that they don't care about the money but just helping out the republicans in the upcoming election. My hope is that people will be outraged and that their over reaching will come back and slap them in the face.

[TAPat]

4. I remember when I was about 7 years old

I was yakking with my friend in the back seat of the car when I said I hated someone. My dad pulled over, stopped the car and with a look that could kill said, "I don't EVER want to hear those words out of your mouth EVER again."
No one heard those words out of my mouth for years and years - until recently. There is simply no other way to describe the feelings I have for these people.
I have to apologize to my dear departed dad every day, but I think he understands :)

[blue cat]

6. I don't usually use the word hate

but I have never been so angry or distressed about our country, and I truly believe that they are destroying our country.

[asjr]

9. I know the feeling! And

this is coming from someone who voted Republican from Eisenhower through (though reluctantly) George H.W. Bush. But there was a time when Republicans were Americans.

[graywarrior]

10. Welcome to DU, and I can assure you...I do not hate you.

I hate dickheads like Santorum, that little ratbastard who we all know was a total dink in high school and deserves a public bitchslapping, and that bigmouthed Pat Buchanan who's wormed his way onto several soapboxes and screams his racist opinions all over the airwaves.

Then there's the rest of the list. We all know who's on our own list of total dickheads.

I was taught not to hate, also....but I fucking HATE the bastards.

[marions ghost]

11. hate is just another word

for 'everything left to lose'...

It's perfectly OK to feel the hate, loathing, revulsion, rejection, disgust. Feel it, acknowledge it, wallow in it. Punch pillows and cry. There are people who dish out so much negativity, and cause so much harm and loss to others that to suppress a natural adverse reaction to them would be feeding a Big Lie.

Then get up and fight against the forces that made us feel so bad. They depend on our paralysis. They depend on our conflict about, "am I a bad person for hating?" They depend on our shock at being victimized.

DO something to counterract what they have done--channel the anger appropriately. In this case take heart that this is a collective rejection. Nobody has to fight this battle alone. Look at Cindy Sheehan.
She made her personal well of hate for a brutal administration much larger. She could have turned it inward but she turned it outward. Not everyone can do it on that scale, but every little bit we do to counter the Repiglican agenda is a positive contribution. It will make us stronger.

You don't have to hate people who are so twisted up they have lost any sense of right and wrong. You don't have to hate people who vote out of fear and delusion. Just hate what they stand for and work against it.