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In reply to the discussion: Where does all their hate come from? [View all]hifiguy
(33,688 posts)56. Fear stoked by a constant drumbeat against the "other"
whether it be black and brown folks who dare to demand equality, poor people who are being screwed by the system and demand justice, uppity wimmens who think their health care is a Big Deal (which it is), scary Mooslins, atheists, LGBT people who dare to demand equality and won't go back into the closet, liberals and anyone else who isn't a bible-banging, gun totin' straight white male.
Few things allow fear to morph into hate than the 24/7 propaganda financed by the 1% who know that they would be hanging from lightpoles if the masses ever got their act together. Divide and conquer is as old as humankind and today's reichwingers have perfected it.
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Like the man who fell into the pit band at the play.... it's just a stage they are going through,
2on2u
Jun 2012
#1
death rattle, cornered animal, last gasp desperation - they are soon to become irrelevant - extinct.
NRaleighLiberal
Jun 2012
#2
I think this has been going on since the days of protests against the VN war and women
southernyankeebelle
Jun 2012
#4
Am 64 and my dad wouldn't let me out on the streets, LOL. I respected my dad yet
southernyankeebelle
Jun 2012
#23
Well I grew up in that generation however I got to travel the world and that opens your
southernyankeebelle
Jun 2012
#18
I agree. Primary on that list was Cheney, Romney. What kills me is Romney actually
southernyankeebelle
Jun 2012
#45
I totally agree with you. Our congress and senate let these Vet's down.
southernyankeebelle
Jun 2012
#44
Fear It comes from the fear of losing control of their lives. The only problem is that they don't
upaloopa
Jun 2012
#5
"Fear that they will become the minority and will get the same treatment they now give minorities"
Canuckistanian
Jun 2012
#46
+1,000,000! So they go out and buy up all their guns, fearful that we Knee-Grows are out
Liberal_Stalwart71
Jun 2012
#52
I also wonder if there isn't a little sub-conscious guilt about all that sub-conscious racism, too.
lindysalsagal
Jun 2012
#64
I think Newt Gingrich deserves the most credit for the current level of vitriol.
Laurian
Jun 2012
#9
Maybe socially, but not economically. They're reversing the middle class gains of the 20th century.
Arugula Latte
Jun 2012
#72
I actually have an honest answer for you: A very close friend has helped me figure it out:
lindysalsagal
Jun 2012
#19
Yes, you're right. Some people learn to be better from difficult situations.
lindysalsagal
Jun 2012
#61
I have a slightly shorter version of it from my own experience, but a similar take:
hatrack
Jun 2012
#47
May be....but that's true of me too, and I'm about the most bleeding heart liberal you could
raccoon
Jun 2012
#53
Yes: Our fathers inveset us with identity: So these emotionally bankrupt zanies
lindysalsagal
Jun 2012
#63
They are behaving like infants who should be reigned in "gimmee gimmee more more mine mine mine"
Ghost of Huey Long
Jun 2012
#66
And then when mixed with hatred and Hate-Radio, it's a pretty lethal combination. n/t
RKP5637
Jun 2012
#42
Reagan and baby Bush are toughs with swagger. McGovern and Kerry are wimps with medals.
ieoeja
Jun 2012
#49
I think they all scored low on the TMI index, causing them to lash their hate at others.
Initech
Jun 2012
#36
You have to disrupt the infrastructure that spreads the lies- the corporate media
Ghost of Huey Long
Jun 2012
#69
Everything is about race, even when it's not supposed to be. Republicans have ran
Liberal_Stalwart71
Jun 2012
#51
I think that they are busy making a last-ditch effort to "bake" their ideology into the cake
Proud Liberal Dem
Jun 2012
#57
Smell the fear. Fear makes people act badly. The richest men are often compensating for deep seated
McCamy Taylor
Jun 2012
#58