Reply #5: Isn't hatred THEIR essential feature?

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Can you fight hatred with hatred, without becoming what you are supposedly fighting against - intolerant, hateful bigots?

I have posted this on DU

"I do not wish to be known as just a Bush-hater.
I also hate Dick Cheney, Tom Delay, Dennis Hastert, Senator Frist, Newt Gingrich, Tommy Thompson, Alan Greenspan, Donald Rumsfeld, Tony Snow, John Snow, etc., etc., all of the shills and liars and evil bastards who push the pro-corporate, anti-worker, anti-environment, anti-government, pro-war policies that comprise the Republican agenda."

However, hating Republican big shots is one thing. Hating Republicans is another. It is not going to win elections. Yes, I know that it has not hurt them to hate us, but they do it in "red" states where our numbers are small. I have gone to two Bush protests in my area and both times, even last month, there has been 3 or four times as many people standing in line to see him than there has been in our protest crowd.

If hatred of another American because of the way they vote is legitimate, then it is legitimate for them to hate me. I do not believe it is legitimate to hate me. This is not a war. It is a democracy, a discussion, maybe even a heated argument. I will not go along with hate mongers of either side who want to make it a war, because "you can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake."