Posted by edsortails on 6/21/2018 4:31:00 PM (view original):
My analogy for Trump and liberal hatred goes like this.
You are walking down the road. You are happy. Things are good. Then suddenly you trip and fall in front of a large group of people. You are embarrassed and you lash out angrily at the next person behind you. Doesn't matter that they had nothing to do with your fall and might have even tried to help you up. Now, that person may also be an a hole who abuses puppies, but you don't wait to find out, you just start kicking him. And never stop, all because you couldn't walk the path in front of you.
For those of you into literature, Tolstoy summed up things nicely on page 7 in
Anna Karenina. The ellipses omit the example for each statement (which is redundant and unnecessary for this conversation.) Mind you, this was written in Czarist Russia in the 1870s.
"The liberal party said that everything was bad in Russia... The liberal party said that marriage was an obsolete institution and was in need of reform... The liberal party said, or rather implied, that religion was just a bridle for the barbarous part of the population...in [the liberal party's] opinion, the danger lies not in the imaginary hydra of revolution but in a stubborn traditionalism that impedes progress..."
This stuff is not new and not even uniquely American.