Free Republic

I realized something very important about the human condition when I was in high school.I realized that people tend to hate those who fight evil far more than they hate those engaged in doing evil.What made me come to this conclusion was the way in which many people reacted to communism and to anti-communism.To my amazement, a great many people -- specifically, all leftists and many, though not all, liberals -- hated anti-communists far more than they hated communism.Because of my early preoccupation with good and evil, already in high school, I hated communism. How could one not, I wondered....