HATING THE HATE
Don’t you just hate it when people (it seems more often to be young women and gays) declare that they “hate” this or that movie, or a restaurant or some celebrity or… well, whatever? “Hate” is tossed around like a beach ball at high-school graduation in that it has nothing whatsoever to do with what’s actually going on at the moment. This is not to say that “hatred” isn’t a powerfully destructive and corrosive reality, it’s just that most people who hate things really don’t, in fact, which means that non-hating people have to be on the lookout for real hatred so that we don’t get caught down in it when it’s being tossed about like a beach ball: never staying in one spot long enough to start an infection. On the other hand, playing with hate can leave reasonably intelligent people open to mob – or group – hatred campaigns while not actually recognizing when “party-hate” has become consuming “hatred,” so foul that it can change people’s personalities.
One person, reasonably intelligent and reasonable, might learn of something with which he or she strongly disagrees and privately bemoan the fact of a bad political or legal turn of events, but never descend into actual hatred of anyone as a result. In a group of equally angered partisans, however, the formerly reasonable person might break laws and demonstrate, agitate, hold signs and shout hateful slogans while comforted by the like-mindedness of other proto-haters. The real hatred spews out when counter-protesters show up, arguing directly against what the mob “hates.” There is no worse hatred than pops out when opponents start to poke holes in the dislikes of the originating protesters.
The worst haters also seem to be the most likely and virulent accusers of hate in others. Why this is so can be debated by psychologists, but it has something to do with the mental neighborhood in which they live. In many cases it is a matter of hating themselves and finding it impossible to love others. Hate is their currency. It should be no surprise that “members” of the LGBTQ+ “community” are among the most active haters, especially transgenderists. One could speculate that a person who “transitions,” even if only emotionally, bears the impossible burden of hating who he or she is… so much so that emotional and mental energies can be almost wholly committed to convincing oneself and others that he or she is, in fact, someone else, an enormous weight to carry.
Another activist group that accentuates its hate for opponents is that comprised of those who are pro-abortion. As a qualified arm-chair analyst, Prudence can see clearly why this is so: people who are “pro-choice” or, in fact, pro-abortion, have first to believe a series of lies relative to the nature and effect of various abortion procedures, which means tricking themselves or lying to themselves, something that is psychologically unsettling in the first place, and then act with or support those who will act on an utter hatred for the proto-human trying to grow and live. Only then could the death of that unborn child be rationalized. Prudence believes that hatred begets hatred – jumping into the shallow end of a pool will ultimately wet the jumper just as thoroughly as would happen by first entering the deep end.
Pro-lifers, on the other hand, tend to be more religious and more Christian in beliefs and actions. For them, life is sacred and fetuses are entrusted to mothers in God’s name; they can’t be killed for any reason. Essentially, the two sides cannot compromise. Having reveled in 50 years of nearly unrestricted abortion rights, pro-abortion forces now feel victimized by forces directly opposed to their beliefs in a right to abort the unborn for virtually any reason, including convenience of the mother and / or the father or of any other person with influence over the mother. To those who have reversed the ostensible “right” to abort, pro-abortionists have only hate. Those who can actively or acquiescently cause or accept the death of entirely innocent unborn babies are already steeped in untruth and hatred. It is a small shift to hate those who have attacked their convoluted premises of justification.
Hate readily erupts from people on the Left, and the reasons seem complex, but they’re not. Socialism is fundamentally premised on hatred. Many who are attracted to this or that sympathetic-sounding promise of socialism, would vehemently deny Socialism’s connection to hatred of any color. Socialism is just “helping” the (choose all that apply:) downtrodden, oppressed, poor, disadvantaged, illegal, incarcerated, undocumented, impaired, incapable, marginalized, indigent, ill-informed, illiterate, iniquitous, intemperate, impregnated, introverted or invasive. Such “help,” however, inevitably costs the recipients freedom and sovereignty. By definition, each type of “help” places the recipient in a group henceforth identified by their weakness or dependence. It all becomes political, as the government grows to encompass all the help it can imagine providing, and the recipients form advocacy groups for their type of neediness.
Nowhere in the socialist corrosion is there a solution to or cure of any need… just nuance and expansion of groups. All the needy will likely vote to increase the levels of help and the numbers of helpless previously unrecognized. Many will be hired to administer the distribution and identification of needed help. It has been said that Socialism denies human nature and is therefore fatally flawed as a means of organizing governance to the benefit of the majority of citizens. In fact, Socialism functions and gains power by promulgating the WORST tendencies of human nature and is therefore fatally flawed as a means of organizing governance.
It is clear that some people, due to momentums from earlier existences or due to unfortunate nurturing, even while in the womb, will be de-motivated to work and otherwise take care of themselves. Such will comfortably accept support from others or, worse, have few compunctions about stealing what they need from others. They are examples of basic beliefs being the foundation of morality. Like most – not all, but most – humans, these individuals’ beliefs may be changed with appropriately provided education and rewarded actions. It is a task that successful societies will undertake and accomplish… failed societies will excuse it and even encourage it as some aspect of “rights.” It is, rather, an aspect of rewarded “wrongs.” Continuous welfare creates resentment among recipients, not gratitude. The relative status of dependents is low; those who have gained the skills to set their own economic path – path of personal “worth” – are obviously treated better, even revered. Those who are economic “losers” are tolerated at best and scorned at worst. There is no pleasure in dependency. Dependents eventually hate the providers. Any change in status for recipients, required by providers, will increase resentment. A relatively minor trigger event could yield widespread hateful, destructive action.
Politically, disgruntled, economically dependent populations are fertile ground for opposition groups and philosophies. A little guidance as to whom to hate, and how, can bring mobs to the streets and actions into riots, scaring the bejeebers out of decent citizens and civil authorities. It can also guide volumes of votes at election time. “Defund the Police” can actually gain political relevance. There are politicians who are so craven as to capitalize on the political will and hatreds of the forces of social failure. For shame.
One political party has shifted its basis to one of hatred, and it’s not the Conservatives, who tend toward belief in the potential and value of every person. Rather than support and profit from their self-destruction, conservatives, more than likely Christian in outlook, believe in the possibility of rehabilitation and conversion of welfare recipients into productive, successful members of the greater society. Welfare must be temporary, in our view; self-support is constructive and self-enhancing; work is its own reward as well as the means of self-support. Everyone is valuable. Unfortunately, for 60 years we have avoided fighting for our beliefs, attempting only to temper the failed and failing beliefs of leftists. For another shame. It is the politics of conservatism that has failed, not that of the left.
There is a fundamental hatred expressed by leftists to keep people in the welfare morass. The waste of their lives and their children’s lives, whether by imposed helplessness, victimhood or crappy education managed by other leftists, is an expression of hatred for those so trapped. What a cruel outlook on politics and power.
Ultimately, as we are witnessing in 2023, there is a general hatred of American Constitutionalism and its “negative rights,” as Barack Obama calls them. Theirs is a hatred of free speech, legal protections of religious expression, unreasonable search and seizure, Fifth Amendment protections and all the rest. This readily becomes hatred of those Americans who believe in and defend the majesty of our Constitutional Republic. As those same leftists cement into place the ability to control the outcomes of elections, their hatred for honesty, truth and fairness is clear. Shame on them. Conservatives are still whistling past the graveyard of failed civilizations, hoping against hope for fair treatment in elections. I hate that.
