"The reality is, they have no vision, no policy. They have nothing to sell but hate, and Americans are not buying it. – Governor Greg Abbott of Texas.
Governor Abbott, whatever you think about him, is right on both counts. Democrats are selling their own brand of toxic hate in the streets and in the nation's capital, but sensible citizens aren't buying. We're talking about real, visceral hate here. Not dislike or disapproval, but active hate democrats have become so good at. Generally, when people talk about hate, they mean dislike. If someone says they hate broccoli, they usually mean they dislike it and do not want to eat it. They see broccoli, they leave it on their plate, and forget about it. They do not obsess over broccoli, keeping their hatred for it burning in their minds 24/7.
Real hate is an active emotion, one whose energy consumes those engaging in it. It is the type of thing that leads individuals to obsess over the object of their hatred. Eventually, if kept up long enough, it consumes the hater. We see it here among most Never-Trumpers and the vicious anti-Israel crowd. It leads to compulsive behavior, like daily anti-Trump screeds over trivial (and occasionally nonexistent) failings puffed up to DefCon 1 status. It is an energy sink. It is tedious and boring. Everyone else either tunes it out or points and laughs.
The energy wasted on hate is a major reason Christianity stresses forgiveness. You cannot simultaneously hate and forgive. Forgiveness requires you to put the hate behind you. It frees that energy for use elsewhere. You may dislike what those you love do, but you do not expend effort hating them.
Look at Gaza. The inhabitants have a piece of territory they could turn into a resort that Monaco could envy. They could be rich, peaceful, and healthy, the jewel of the Middle East. Instead, they pour all their resources into destroying their hated neighbor, Israel. As a result, their home is an impoverished rubble heap.
Humans almost instinctively know hatred is bad. Not that we are not capable of it: the whole Lost Cause movement was a product of post-Civil War Confederate hatred of the North. Hatred consumed the South and left it well behind the rest of the United States. The South did not rise to the prominence it now holds in the US economy until it was willing to put the hatreds engendered by the Civil War behind it.
Nowadays a small Southern town is a far more tolerant place than a Northern university town. I personally can attest to that.
Yet hate is what the Democrats are selling. Hope is what Americans want. Whether you like Trump or dislike him, hope is what Trump is selling, not hate. He cannot be defeated by hating him, only by selling a superior version of hope. But to today's' democrat, Hope is just a worn out campaign slogan.
🚨Deranged James Carville compares companies working with the Trump administration to N*zi collaborators after the liberation of Paris in 1944:
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) April 4, 2025
"Do you know what's going to happen? Do you know how this ends?"
"Do you know what the country is going to feel toward collaborators… pic.twitter.com/xFat1erweW
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