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Here is a riveting spectacle of losing Democrats screaming their h*tred at an image of Donald Trump: here<\/a>. All right, it\u2019s actually a scene from 1984<\/em> where the socialist population scream h*tred at an image of their No. 1 Enemy of the State, Emanuel Goldstein. But really, what\u2019s the difference?<\/p>\n

It is not intrinsically immoral to hate.<\/p>\n

I promised to address the subject of hate, but almost wish I hadn\u2019t. Hate is difficult to discuss because it is morally elusive. It is not intrinsically immoral to hate. One may hate sin and injustice, and in fact, Thomas Aquinas wrote that failure to hate injustice is a sin. (FYI, we use \u201cinjustice\u201d here to mean something much broader and inclusive than the Left\u2019s tiny mantra of \u201clack of equity.\u201d For example, the theft of some people\u2019s money to underwrite the lives of others, the waging of pointless wars, the tyrannical imposition of medical procedures\u2026 The list is long.)<\/p>\n

It is this mass-identity form of hate that concerns us here.<\/p>\n

There is a line to be drawn, however, between hating evil ideas and unjust outcomes on the one hand and hating people on the other. \u201cHate the sin, not the sinner\u201d is the watchword of Christian belief regarding hatred. It is not always an easy distinction to maintain. We all hate Naziism. Why can\u2019t we hate Hitler et al., as well? Where does one stop and the other begin? Yet, the difference is crucial, especially when it applies to groups of people. Hating Germans was never acceptable, even when the ideology many of them espoused led to nightmare. Generalizing according to race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, or any other form of group identity is the most despicable form of hate, no matter who\u2019s hating whom.<\/p>\n

It is this mass-identity form of hate that concerns us here. Recall the song lyric:<\/p>\n

\nYou\u2019ve got to be taught to hate and fear,
\nYou\u2019ve got to be taught from year to year,
\nIt\u2019s got to be drummed in your dear little ear\u2014
\nYou\u2019ve got to be carefully taught!<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014 Oscar Hammerstein II<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This song from South Pacific<\/em> refers, of course, to racial hatred. Lt. Cable in the musical has found it impossible to overcome the prejudice drilled into him by his parents and to marry a Polynesian girl. How could he tell Mom and Dad? Racial hatred has, thank God, greatly abated over the decades, but in his song, Lt. Cable hit on something that applies to all forms of hatred: It must be taught. Group-hate is not an inherent quality. We are not born with it. It is installed in us, instilled in us. It is carefully taught\u2014taught by families, by nations, by cultures, by ideologies. Catholics were once taught to hate Jews and Protestants to hate Catholics and vice-versa. It\u2019s not limited to the West. The massacre of Tutsis by Hutus in Rwanda was group-hate at its pinnacle, and while I am no expert on African tribes, I would bet good money that the Hutus weren\u2019t born hating the Tutsis. They had to be taught.<\/p>\n

The massive outpouring of hatred directed against Trump supporters by a large number of Democrats has not, and I pray will not, reach anything like the fever pitch of tribal slaughter. But it is nonetheless disturbing that a Yale professor has advised Kamala Harris\u2019s supporters to cut off contact with relatives who voted for Trump\u2014a position endorsed by Whoopi Goldberg; that according to ABC News roughly half the country regards Trump as a fascist (!) and by extension his followers fascists as well; that TV personality Jimmy Kimmel condemned millions of Americans for \u201cvoting for a criminal\u201d; and that numerous videos of losing Democrats expressing outrage and in many cases suggesting violence against Trump supporters have appeared on social media.<\/p>\n

Numerous videos of losing Democrats expressing outrage and in many cases suggesting violence against Trump supporters have appeared on social media.<\/p>\n

Sometimes the hatred is potentially deadly. Consider Marn\u2019i Washington, a FEMA worker who was fired recently for not assisting disaster victims if their property contained a Trump\/Vance sign.<\/em> This is an almost unbelievably evil act, tantamount to attempted murder. Washington was fired, but in an interview following her firing, she claimed that the word to avoid Trump\/Vance houses came down from on high\u2014from FEMA officials. This is being investigated, and if true, should result in prison terms, not just firings.<\/p>\n

None of this should surprise, however, considering that the tens of millions who voted for Trump have been labeled \u201cdeplorable\u201d and \u201cgarbage\u201d by Democrat leaders.<\/p>\n

A FEMA worker was fired recently for not assisting disaster victims if their property contained a Trump\/Vance sign.<\/em><\/p>\n

In short, to the Left we are deplorable fascist garbage who support a criminal president and deserve to be ignored by our families and by the government agencies charged with our protection. Oh yeah, we\u2019re also white nationalists and a threat to democracy.<\/p>\n

They hate us.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, they hate us because we are \u201chateful.\u201d Everywhere the Woke post on social media you see the word \u201chate\u201d hurled against conservatives. We burst with hate. We thrive on hate. We HATE! HATE! HATE! and the losing side hates that!<\/p>\n

But you know what? They\u2019re right. We do hate. We hate their ideas and their actions.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re right. We do hate. Only we don\u2019t hate them.<\/p>\n

We hate their ideas and their actions.<\/p>\n

We hate socialism, a failed economic system that\u2019s killed more people than it\u2019s fed.<\/p>\n

We hate monetary policy that inflates the economy and leads to poverty.<\/p>\n

We hate the idea that it\u2019s okay for millions of people to flood our country without being vetted for criminality, disease, and child sex trafficking. We hate the fact that money is diverted from our own citizenry, from veterans and the homeless, to feed and house these flagrant lawbreakers, who are really nothing other than invaders without uniforms.<\/p>\n

We hate sending billions of dollars to a country halfway around to the world to fight a losing war that only benefits American munitions manufacturers.<\/p>\n

We hate abortion-on-demand, as if it were just another form of birth control.<\/p>\n

We hate the absurd idea that the sexes are interchangeable, hate men posing as women in sports, and hate most especially surgeries on children that remove their sex organs.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t hate the people who think and do these things, although we generally think of them as fools. We hate their foolish ideas and deeds that result in death, poverty, and moral collapse. This is the \u201chate\u201d they hate us for.<\/p>\n

So, I have a suggestion for the losing side: Stop hating us and stick to hating our ideas. In hating our ideas, you will need to come to grips with what those ideas are.<\/p>\n

Stop hating us and stick to hating our ideas. In hating our ideas, you will need to come to grips with what those ideas are.<\/p>\n

You will have to face the possibility that when you censor free speech, using \u201chate speech\u201d as an excuse, it is your side that embraces fascism, not ours. You\u2019ll have to explain why child sex trafficking is actually cool, and why people who have broken the law to enter this country deserve better treatment than our own citizens. You\u2019ll be forced to defend arming a foreign country to kill people in another foreign country for no reason pertaining to our own freedom and security. You\u2019ll need to consider the meaning of free enterprise vs. that of socialism with an open mind.<\/p>\n

It would be a grand shift of focus if the Left were to engage with us intellectually rather than shouting their hatred at The Orange Man, just as the Ingsoc population in Orwell\u2019s 1984 <\/em>hurled hatred at the fictional Emanuel Goldstein. But I\u2019m not holding my breath. Remember, \u201cYou\u2019ve got to be taught,\u201d and a large chunk of our country has been taught to hate all that Trump and his followers stand for. The indoctrination has been going on for decades, long before Trump made his appearance on the political scene.<\/p>\n

I was a teenager in the late 1960s, when the seeds of this hatred were sown. Anyone who recalls that time will remember the sudden change that came over the country. The dividing line was the Vietnam War. Before that war, America was secure in its values, which included the rights outlined in our Constitution\u2014the right to free speech, the practice of one\u2019s chosen religion, the right to bear arms, etc.\u2014and the idea that individuals were free to pursue their dreams based on their own merit. There were flaws, as there will be in any social system, the most serious of which was the undercurrent of racism. The turmoil of the \u201960s brought racism and other previously hidden faults to the surface and made it possible to set a course correction.<\/p>\n

Along the way, however, the idea set in that America\u2019s flaws made her somehow irredeemable. American values \u201cmarginalized\u201d the poor, and never mind that the country\u2019s poor at the time numbered far fewer per capita than most other countries. American values idolized the family, which to the naysayers was nothing more than an institution for the enslavement of women. American values favored the independent and the industrious over the collective and the non-productive, a violation of socialist ethos. American values derived from Christianity, which was guilty of not being Buddhism, the chic religion of the \u201960s generation.<\/p>\n

To make taking sides easy for the uncritical mind, the Right-Left political spectrum, which had gone through myriad distortions since its origin in the 1789 French Revolution, was further distorted to accommodate two conflicting political stances at the same end of the spectrum<\/em>. If you championed freedom from government-enforced social change, you were on the Right. But being on the Right also meant championing fascism, the very epitome of government-enforced social change! Freedom thereby became conflated with its opposite, and being on the \u201cRight\u201d came to mean both resisting state control and insisting on it.<\/p>\n

Confusion sent unreflective people to the Left, since it was purported to be the more compassionate\u2026and, well, at least it wasn\u2019t fascist! Thoughtful people noticed that it was the Left, not the Right, that demanded government control of everything from business to morals, and that this was closer to actual fascism than the Right\u2019s hands-off position. But thoughtful people were hard to find. Besides, it\u2019s always much easier to acquiesce to what your society teaches you, and what \u201960s society taught was that being on the Left was good<\/em>, and being on the Right was bad<\/em>. It was really that simplistic.<\/p>\n

Those on the Left were also deemed (by the Left, who were in charge of the academy) to be intelligent, while those on the Right were labeled stupid and uninformed. In other words, \u201cintelligence\u201d came to mean the uncritical acceptance of whatever was said to be \u201con the Left.\u201d If you challenged any ideas held by the Left, you were a \u201cRight-winger,\u201d and socially unacceptable as well as stupid.<\/p>\n

I recall having what, at first, I thought would be a civilized conversation with two advocates of strict gun control. This was in the 1970s, when American values, including the Second Amendment, had already come to be considered equal to fascism. My two friends were staunch advocates of removing most guns from private ownership. \u201cThat won\u2019t keep criminals from getting guns,\u201d I argued, \u201cand will only make it harder for ordinary citizens to defend themselves.\u201d Instead of offering a counterargument, one of them turned to the other and said, \u201cHe\u2019s really gone right-wing, hasn’t he?\u201d That ended the discussion. Left is good<\/em>, Right is bad<\/em>.<\/p>\n

From the \u201960s on, \u201cBeing on the Left\u201d became a path to automatic intelligence, instant moral rectitude, and fast-track political correctness. No thinking required.<\/p>\n

From the \u201960s on, \u201cBeing on the Left\u201d became a path to automatic intelligence, instant moral rectitude, and fast-track political correctness. No thinking required.<\/p>\n

And now the 2024 election has exposed the fact that a large majority of Americans never bought into it, never accepted Leftist hatred of their own country and its values. The Left may have taken over the universities, the media, public health and general society, but the spirit of independence\u2014which from 1776 onward has been the core of the American experiment, whatever its errors along the way\u2014endured beneath the cultural radar and came out November 5th en masse<\/em> to restore American values to America. It was a kind of miracle.<\/p>\n

Yet, we are hated by a minority that would upend the results of this election and call it \u201cdemocracy.\u201d They hate us because they have nothing else to justify their positions. They cannot defend the indefensible ideas they espouse. They don\u2019t even try. They simply pronounce moral cliches about compassion and love and then turn with unparalleled viciousness against anyone who questions their automatic claims to virtue, starting with the Orange Man at the top, and working their way down to each and every one of us. If they were not fools, they would stop to ponder why intelligent, courageous Democrats like R.F.K. Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, and Naomi Wolf have seen through the charade and abandoned the Democrat party.<\/p>\n

It has taken 60 years for the \u201960s Leftist project to run its course. It is now spent, and its partisans have only hate in their arsenal. The brainwashed population in Orwell\u2019s 1984<\/em> focused their hate on one fictional man because they had nowhere else to put it. The Left has for years used President Trump as the target of their hate, with \u201cdeplorables\u201d as mere appendages. Now the hate has spread to the tens of millions of us who supported Trump. You hate us but we will not hate you back. We don\u2019t roll like that. We know you are redeemable. We know you can change your minds if you are honest about what has happened.<\/p>\n

But if you don\u2019t, it won\u2019t matter in the long run. We have truly turned a page. We have won and will continue to win.<\/p>\n

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This essay was originally published November 13, 2024, on War of the Words: Language, Lies, and the Left<\/em><\/a>. It appears here with the permission of the author.<\/p>\n

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