Envy sure is diabolical.
People use it as an excuse to destroy one another. Heck - the liberals use it as an excuse to destroy this President.
Very hard to counteract without lowering yourself to their level.
The very best in-depth explanation of envy and it’s disastrous effects on societies can be found in an old book, written by Dr. Helmut Schoeck, expert in medicine and psychology with a doctorate in philosophy. Born in Austria in 1922, he grew up to have an extremely impressive career, after coming to the US in 1950. ENVY is one of his works which I happened to run across some years ago and was so impressed that I bought more copies of the book. It contains a literally history of envy and it’s effects on every possible situation you can imagine. It is a very evil and ever present condition in the heart of man/woman kind and, given free reign, can destroy every success and happiness you can imagine. Right now, we are seeing full blown envy in our own nation, through a media which is mind boggling regarding it’s ignorant of it’s own deficit in that respect. Having lived through Hitler’s Germany, Dr. Schoeck had a front row seat to such things and has written extensively about it in his book, “ENVY.”