Imagine a world without hate

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11. "Naive wishful thinking" indeed, but isn't that what liberalism is built on?

None us realistically expect to live to see a world without hatred or racism or misogyny or homophobia or poverty or xenophobia or religious intolerance or nativism or any number of other negative human traits. Perhaps it is more 'realistic' to dream of a world with 'a little less hate' (or 'a little less racism, homophobia, misogyny', etc.) than there is today rather than 'no hate at all'. But it would make for poor song lyrics - "Imagine there a little less hate in the world ... and a little less racism, too...."

Dreaming of a world without hate, racism, misogyny, etc. may be "naive wishful thinking" to some but to others (most of whom must know that they will not live to see the day) that may be the motivation people need to keep working to reduce, in not eliminate, those negative human experiences. I can easily understand conservatives belittling liberals' desire to create a world without hate (they often do and hate, along with fear, are what motivates many republican voters), but I don't think we should give each other a hard time about it.