Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

One Problem Has Been They Hate Us - We Do Not Hate Them
The Houston Courant ^ | 11/31/2020 | M. Tremoglie

Posted on 11/21/2020 11:53:54 AM PST by The Houston Courant

Several years ago I attended a dinner at a five star restaurant given by a very famous conservative organization - to remain unnamed. One of the movers and shakers of Inside-the-Beltway.

One guest entered and was immediately mobbed by the others. This guest was a very famous “Republican” pollster - also to remain unnamed. Curiosity compelled me to approach this great man and snatch whatever pearls of wisdom I could. It is worth noting that this “Republican” pollster who was holding court that evening was one of the most virulent Never Trumpers in DC in 2016.

Like a timorous student of Aristotle at the Lyceum, I asked the Republican Pollster what he learned about the current political state in America. He fixed his wise gaze upon me and responded, “Liberals hate us. We do not hate them.”

He quickly turned his back to me to dispense more wisdom to another inquisitor. I walked away feeling not wiser but bewildered. When I returned to my table sitting next to my wife I remarked, “Why does this man earn so much money for discovering the obvious - or maybe it is not so obvious to GOP DC denizens.”

After all, a little more than a decade earlier the GOP took control of the House for the first time in 40 years. Let me repeat this for those younger than 35 years old. Republicans had not been the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1954 to 1994! For those of us who recall those days know that the Democrats did not take this well. They immediately started fear and hate mongering.

(Excerpt) Read more at houstoncourant.com ...


TOPICS: Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; democrats; freedom; houstoncourant; ihatethem; learnhowtopost; pimpmyblog; postandrun; postthewholearticle; republicans
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-88 next last
To: The Houston Courant
I'm from a different generation than most of today's voters but I have always felt that it is possible to disagree with someone politically without automatically hating them. I'm probably more forgiving of Democrats than I am of the Never-Trumpers. I was once an avid Never-Trumper but I have seen the light and believe that President Trump is exactly what this nation needed in 2016 and still needs in 2020. There is a degree of treachery in the persistent Never-Trumpers that offenses me no end.

Hating your political enemies comes from the progressive mindset that wishes to eliminate their opposition by any means possible while I think the conservative mindset is to convince and ultimately convert the opposition.

21 posted on 11/21/2020 12:12:12 PM PST by CommerceComet (Joe Biden: Showing his leadership by cowering in the basement like a scared child.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: The Houston Courant

If you look up the hysteria of the Galli priests of Sybel and later the Maenad women of Dionysus (sort of gay transgender Galli priest turned into a god), you will figure the democrat hysterical behavior.

The only way for greek women to resist the evil influence of the slave cult which promoted sex, castration and abortions, and which is a feminist equivalent of the islamist 72 virgins in heaven fantasy, they had to kill animals in sacrifice as well as a baby,

Until Christ came along and stopped it by coopting the sacrificial show by taking away the ritual of trance which consisted in drinking the Dionysian blood and eating the flesh of Dionysus in order to incarnate his possessing the follower. Christ on passover coopted the cult and oriented its contract on Himself to free people from it. Then He was sacrificed in a Dionysean hysteria.


22 posted on 11/21/2020 12:13:40 PM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hates:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: The Houston Courant

Yes we do.

Or I do anyway.


23 posted on 11/21/2020 12:13:48 PM PST by JPJones (More Tariffs, less income tax.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: The Houston Courant

The Scorched Earth Policy came to DC with the Clintons.. and the Left has been on fire with hate ever since.


24 posted on 11/21/2020 12:14:03 PM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: The Houston Courant

“...One Problem Has Been They Hate Us - We Do Not Hate Them...”

Believe me, for myself, that’s no longer a problem.

They taught me. And I learned REAL well.


25 posted on 11/21/2020 12:15:40 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: NFHale

I am a Christian, first and foremost, and this has been a very hard test.


26 posted on 11/21/2020 12:17:23 PM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: The Houston Courant

i hate socialists.

they are a pox on humanity and nothing goodcomes from any of them.


27 posted on 11/21/2020 12:18:46 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: joethedrummer

this is true

i live by the golden rule

they live by the ends justify the means


28 posted on 11/21/2020 12:20:04 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: The Houston Courant

Speak for yourself


29 posted on 11/21/2020 12:20:59 PM PST by clamper1797 (We are getting close to the last "box")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: The Houston Courant

Proggys hate normal Americans and want us dead. They’ve said as much. KTF


30 posted on 11/21/2020 12:21:55 PM PST by Noumenon ("Only the dead have seen an end to war." - Plato)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: CommerceComet

I had a Leftist friend who thanked the Lincoln Project ( even named the turncoat members) for helping ‘them’ (her husband is a DC lawyer) win this election. She is no longer my ‘friend’. And she is Jewish, but doesn’t see the parallels between those she supports and the rise of theThird Reich.


31 posted on 11/21/2020 12:22:25 PM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: The Houston Courant

We hate them, but we’re civilized enough not to do it openly.


32 posted on 11/21/2020 12:24:18 PM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (Proud to be "Not fit for polite society." )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

Democrats are truly the party of HATE.

They hate us. They hate the military. They hate police. They hate God.

They even hate themselves.


33 posted on 11/21/2020 12:24:22 PM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (I'll be good, I will, I will!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: The Houston Courant

I do now.


34 posted on 11/21/2020 12:25:06 PM PST by jersey117
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: The Houston Courant

. . . . until they tried to steal the election, then we did.


35 posted on 11/21/2020 12:25:16 PM PST by BusterDog
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: pnut22

“There in lies the problem. Democrats will do anything.. and I mean anything because they believe that the end justifies the means.”

I am reading Witness by Whittaker Chambers. It applies so much to today. Their moral code is man made. In their mind what they are doing is morally correct. If you disagree with them you are evil. They believe man evolving as they desire is God’s will if they believe God at all.


36 posted on 11/21/2020 12:28:02 PM PST by alternatives? (If our borders are not secure, why fund an army?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: The Houston Courant

37 posted on 11/21/2020 12:28:50 PM PST by Gideon7
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: alternatives?

The Left believes they have a “mandate from the masses” (whomever they are), and that elections are “bourgeois”.


38 posted on 11/21/2020 12:30:47 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies]

To: The Houston Courant

As it happens, I was just thinking about this yesterday...

What drove me to think about it was a story I saw here on FR about a liberal whackadoo that defaced his own brand new car with spray paint, covering it with “hateful” things... to claim there was a hate crime. A Jessie Smollett redux. It didn’t work, and he was up against it for insurance fraud...

They NEED us to be that evil they want to hate... and, since we’re not cooperative... they’ll just make it up.

But, of course, its not just the one off instances... the entire premise of the BLM and Antifa that Republicans are NAZIs and racists... is the exact same thing...

So, what is it in their CHARACTER that requires they need to be faced with this EVIL ? FWIW, I know racism. I grew up in the rural south. I was there and lived it, in the 1960’s when the schools were forcibly integrated, and the children were forced to bear the brunt of our societal dysfunction, as our parents generation were unable to sort it out among themselves as adults, so opted to impose the problem on the kids to have them sort it out instead. I’ve also lived as an American isolated in a small village in Japan. I’ve seen it, lived it, and understand it. So, the crocodile tears of BLM/Antifa complaining about “racism” in society today, when racism is NOT the issue it has been historically... tend to fall rather flat with me. The irony of stupid white liberal college students rioting for BLM... because white people are the oppressors... is only lost on them.

Racism still exists. Its real. But the external obstacles faced by people of color today are not MOSTLY about race. The system today is biased against racism, and isn’t enabling it as a systemic problem. But, it provides an easy excuse for failures that otherwise require alternative explanations.

The issue is... we do hate them... only, not anyone because of anyone’s skin color, but LIBERALS because of their corrupt politics forcing failure on themselves, and us.

So, not news, their effort is entirely disingenuous. They’re merely trying to change the subject... to avoid the real issues. And, that, of course, is also perfectly in keeping with their underlying problem... in the CHARACTER issue.


39 posted on 11/21/2020 12:30:59 PM PST by Sense
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: hawgwalker

I much prefer an enemy that is known to be an enemy than a friend who turns out to be an enemy in disguise.

Geez, that sounds profound like someone other than me said it ;-)


40 posted on 11/21/2020 12:31:51 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-88 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson