“....hate did not exist on this land. It was an introduced thing,”
Some things/people deserve to and must be hated.
PS American Indian tribes tended to be mortal enemies of each other.
Hate must be seen in the range of individualism to collectivism. Individual hate is when someone does somthing to you personally. It is about your and him.
Collective hate only exists to the extent that you support the collective.
At the lowest level, the family is the collective. The Hatfields hate the McCoys.
With TV and now social media, hate exists between people who do not know each other personally. The caricautre of the hated collective (and the hate collective) is hated with lit
tle or no knowledge of each other.
Trump is hated. Trump haters go beyond Trump and hate his supporters. Of course, we are a very diverse group. Hate does not allow for variations in the hated. They are all that same in the mass, mindless allegation of the hater to the hated
Of coursek, this works the other way, also. Trump supporters often hate netral independents, just because they are not (yet) Trump supporters.
Trump won primaries in 2016 because he was able to convert Democrats in Pennsylania and similar places to vothe Republican. Regular Republicans hated this.
Have Trump Republicans now become just like Regular Republicans?.... hating those who want to convert and thus preventing conversion?
Here in GA the immigrants that Republican policies brought to GA are ripe for conversion to Republicanism. But they are hated...maybe hate is too strong a word for some. But new immigrants to GA are definitely not welcomed by either Trumpers or non-Trumper Republicans.
They are not looked at as individusls with individual decisions. They are looked at as a collective and it is hard to convert the collective.