Why all the hate? (Vanity)

Why all the hate? Why do so many of the liberals so viscerally despise Trump and all Republicans who side with him? Was there ever such hate for Obama? I know there were deep policy disputes with Obama, but conservatives were prevented from expressing the kind of hatred we see today for fear of being called “racist.” And, honestly, I never felt hatred for Obama; disagreement, definitely. But not the hatred we see today on the left. In fact, most of Obama’s presidency was enabled for that very reason: Republicans were terrified of that “racist” label, and they did not resist Obama’s policies while today Trump’s very breath is opposed by all liberals with the deepest hatred I have ever seen in this country.

And thus I wonder: why such vicious hatred? Do liberals see themselves as threatened, and has this led to this loathing? Why are liberals more shocked and hateful nowadays than conservatives were eight years ago?

I think it comes down to self-identity. All human beings want to be safe and comfortable; we want to be fed, housed, educated, and reimbursed for the work we do. When our life-styles are threatened, we react.

I think liberals self-define themselves politically more so than conservatives. A liberal friend recently sent me a long list of causes that he supports, over fifteen causes, from abortion to immigration, as if that list defined and defended who he is. “On election day,” he says, “I didn't cry because I hated Trump or was afraid of him, I cried because he showed me that the people of this country are much, much worse than I thought they were.” When liberals see their beliefs threatened, they blame others for not agreeing with them; they riot rather than hear another side by a provocative speaker; they crumble and resort to viciousness and hatred, accusing conservatives of ruining their country and, by extension, their ideals and their lives. This may be because their own identity is intrinsically linked to their liberal politics.

On the contrary, I think conservatives are defined by many more things than political beliefs, and when they lose an election, they are disappointed but they go on with their lives. They realize that there isn’t a great deal that the president can do that affects our daily lives. It is really our own responsibility, our own actions that define our lives and determine our well being. Conservatives do not rely on the government to make us happy, while liberals seem to believe that government’s role is to make all lives better and happier. So when there is a change of government, they cannot cope. They feel their own happiness falling in shreds at their feet, even though no real action has yet affected their lives. Unable to see the other side, nor the possibilities inherent in new policies, they strike out in bitterness and hatred.

As one of my friends noted recently: "Conservatives strongly support the rights, responsibilities, and privileges of the individual, so they tend to be less interested in controlling the thoughts, behaviors, and values of other people. Conversely, liberals believe that individuals must conform to the needs and desires of society, so they have a tendency to want to control the thoughts, ideals, and actions of others."

In case you are interested in my own political journey: I was raised in a Republican household, but while in college, I remember arguing with my father at the dinner table. In college and graduate schools, because of my interest in art, I was of course surrounded by liberals. But I was not politically aware. I never voted for Reagan. I bought all the distortion dealt by the media. I voted for John Anderson, an “independent” vote that I realize was now was totally wasted. I voted for Geraldine Ferraro as VP because she was a woman.

I followed the liberal line, until I became pregnant and then miscarried. My husband, always a stronger conservative than I, asked a simple question about abortion that I had never truly considered: “Is it murder or is it not?” Thus I began to rethink my positions. And then Clarence Thomas came up for the Supreme Court. Living between my studio (in a mill by a waterfall) and our tiny apartment, I listened to every minute of the hearings, only missing the moments walking to and from my car. I was appalled by the bias of NPR and the “lynching” of a black man because he dared to have conservative ideas. The hearings with Anita Hill, the “pubic hair on the coke can” were so outrageous; I did not yet realize how the media could lie. I began listening to alternative voices on the radio. I became a conservative.

Now I am one of the few conservative professors at a state university. I do voice my views on Facebook but not generally around the university. I disagree with many of my colleagues politically, but I don’t hate them. I am dismayed at the liberal bias of so many universities, but there isn’t much that I can do. Some of my professor friends at different universities were shocked when I “came out” on Facebook as a conservative. “What happened to you?!” It was only later that I realized that if my opinions were so foreign to my liberal professor friends, then there was indeed more bias at universities than I had realized. I like to think that my college is more balanced, but that is probably because I only really know my own classes, where I do try to be politically neutral as I point out links between the past and events of today, even in art history classes.

In any event, I do not define myself solely by my politics; there are many other activities in which I take great joy and which define my life. I don’t take political stances in order to be accepted and approved by others. I continued with my life during the Clinton and Obama presidencies, even while questioning their policies. I didn’t sink into depression and hatred when Obamacare was passed in the middle of the night with no Republican votes. However, I did hope for its overturn and a more rational and well-developed plan to replace Obamacare. I am still hoping for this, and the same is true for correcting many of Obama’s other disastrous policies.

What I wish is that liberals would realize is that there is a great deal of apolitical pleasure in the world. Happiness is available through many different channels, and one’s identity should not be at risk because there is a Republican in the White House. The pendulum will doubtless swing back left again in time. I just wish liberals would chill out a bit, cut down on the hatred, and give this president at least a chance to seat his cabinet. It is what they expected, and received, with Obama and what they will expect with next Democratic president.

Hardcore Liberalism is way past being a religion or religious cult. It is a form of self-induced mental illnesses ranging from delusions to egomaniacal behavior and beliefs (i.e. fanaticism) with every other mental illness, especially political class hatred, thrown in the pot.

Just look at Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Fauchohantas Warren, Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid and Rep. Cummings to see the “true believers” of liberalism, joined by the leftists of the Southern Poverty Law Center (No threat from the Left practionners). The whole Congressional Black Caucus is basically “beyond liberalism” to racial politics and mini-Marxism (with a number of them being communists and Marxists).

There are a few Hispanic members of congress who are just a far-left and crazy as those mentioned above so you know who the usual suspects are.

The NAACP has gone over the cliff that “granny” was supposed to be pushed off of by the Republicans. Now they are racists and hatemongers themselves.

“Liberal” professors have more in common with Karl Marx, Beria, Dherzinsky, Pavlov and Lysenko that they do with Milton Friedman, Frederick Hayek, Ben Franklin, Frederick Douglas and Martin Luther King Jr.

Many mainstream newspaper reporters, TV talking heads, and “experts” are self-deluding liars because they have been ordered to be so in order to keep their jobs, accept “GROUP THINK” as normal, or are just egotistical society climbers who have abdicated any sense of morality, ethics, professionalism, or in some cases sanity (Olbermann, Matthews, O’Donnell (Lawrence), Ed Schulz, most of the MSNBC sanitarium inhabitants, lots of the CNN prima donna wannabes, Pulitzer Prize pushers, and grandstanders).

Liberals have long ago abandoned the precepts of scientific inquiry (Kameney’s approach to a hypothesis and research; ethics - all the fake stories published by the Wash. Post, NY Times, Rolling Stone, etc); morality - going after peoples children in an attempt to get at the parents, violating privacy rules, and just lying; and many more sins of the mentally ill.

Liberals, in the end, have nothing left but “Hate” to fuel their mental demons. The Professor who asked about why liberals hate must know that deep down they are insecure in their own minds about the “TRUTH” and will believe any crap that some professional leftist or wackjob hands them in the name of “science” or “investigative journalism”.

Liberal is indeed a serious mental illness, and their ability to swallow Marxist lies and doctrine like sugar panacea pills is not just astonishing, it is frightening.

Even more frightening is the fact that while the professional haters of the Communist and Racial extremists movement know exactly what they are doing, the masses of undereducated or overeducated Americans are setting records for mass gullibility and stupidity.

You see this in our schools, in the movies, on talk shows of the Left, in books and the news media, EVERY DAY OF YOUR LIFE.

Professor, welcome to the “Wonderful world of reality”. Frightening isn’t it?

Yep, that's from the malware they've been infected with.

In times past when we valued a classical education, going to college was like connecting to secure website and downloading high quality software and data.

However, in our times, we now value a progressive education, which makes going to college like connecting to a porn site and downloading the latest malware.

As someone who has grown up through these changes with much older parents, I had their memories of how it used to be to compare with how it was for me.

From a biblical perspective, I've read and heard that these times are the work of the three unclean/foul spirits spoken of in Revelation 16:13 and that actually makes sense to me now in our internet age.

From this perspective, Progressivism can be understood as being an evolved variant of the Marx virus, whose various iterations laid waste to much of the 20th century.

Once infected with any of the Marx malware variants, the person's references, definitions, look up tables, registry, you name it, are rewritten so as to replace the Father code with an image of the Beast code and then reprogram the infected in the image of the Beast.

In our age of single parents, as both the Heavenly Father and the family father have been removed and replaced with/by GovCo, many of us lack the strong OEM based definitions we had and valued in times past, nor do we have strong protections in place around such valuable core data against the modern, worldly malware constantly attacking it.

Many of us are soft targets for such aggressive malware and far too many are programmed to seek it, not avoid it.

The infected and the assimilated may look the same as before they were plugged in, but they are running a totally different program now, and that's why they argue and fight so hard.

Their definitions have been corrupted; their truths replaced with lies they know are true and that they need to be true.

What they actually need is a hard reset so they are rebooted with the OEM definitions and registry values in place again.

Fwiw, as near as I can tell so far in my research, Fatima warned of what has happened and Garabandal, the "sequel" to Fatima, speaks of a reset to come, perhaps soon.

Said another way:

"America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life.
If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within."
~ Joseph Stalin
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No one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man.
And then he will plunder his house.
--Mark 3:27

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