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It’s not unreasonable to state that most wingnuts hate our guts. It’s also not unreasonable to state that many of us hate Bush, Cheney, Limbaugh, Coulter, O’Reilly, etc. And it’s a fair guess that, due to the past seven years, much of the world hates Americans.
IMO, the cause of this problem lies squarely with the Republicans, starting with the Reagan years, and being highly elevated by Newt Gingrich’s poisonous language and actions when he was a congressman. Tom DeLay picked up where Gingrich left off and they then went after the Clinton administration with rabid viciousness.
The hatred that many of us harbor is a reaction to the hatred that has been directed against us. And it all makes for a very unhealthy and even dangerous situation. Hatred affects us all both mentally and physically.
We know that the Republicans will never declare a truce. So I believe that the only way to end this cycle of hatred is to win the ’08 election – and win BIG. At that point, we will (hopefully) have the luxury of ignoring them. If they want to continue hating, let them drown in their own bile. But let’s not drown with them.
I’ve had this conversation with friends and acquaintances, and most of them believe that, even if we win big, we can’t ignore them, forgive them, or stop hating them. They believe that by doing so, we will only be opening the door for them to, once again, take over and desecrate our government.
So do we forgive and forget, or do we seek what some would call “revenge” and others, myself included, would call “justice.”
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