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In reply to the discussion: WHY is There so much HATE in this country??? [View all]RainDog
(28,784 posts)And did it at a time when he was assassinated, which is why people have a hard time accepting Oswald as someone acting alone.
The point I was trying to make, tho, is your experience of the world is filtered by DU.
If you logged off of DU for a few days, didn't turn on TV, etc. and saw other things that made you realize there are good and decent people, and the majority of them are - and even some of the creeps are capable of this with the right sort of "socialization" to a new normalcy - you could put all that in perspective.
However, what we haven't seen before now is the outright racist sentiment as a standard for a political party since Wallace.
Prior to Obama's election, as Lee Atwater noted, Republicans transferred their racist argument into economic ones, knowing Republicans would hear the "dog whistle" of racism in policy actions.
They're still doing that.
But, because Obama is bi-racial, some also stir up the worst among us by appealing to their fear/hate.
The same with women.
When we have a female president, we will see the sexists out in force. We already see them working to undermine female autonomy through the law, and this is tied to their religious hatred of females - tho they don't realize their religion is teaching them to view females as second-class humans. It's "natural" and "the way god made us" to keep others, what ever their "other" may be, away from power because that maintains power within in narrow range of possibilities.
...which is how some like it. They're called Republicans, for the most part.