They diminish themselves in a crazy, desperate attempt to attain and maintain dominance, looking like the fools they are in the process.

They have to live out the rest of their miserable lives knowing the have betrayed us.

the Gabbard supporters don't hate them.

Explain please. I am trying to understand.

I do hold them in contempt, and am convinced that they are as unconscious beings. But I don't hate them.

They have no sense of shame.

ejected from power by the voters. They should be investigated, and, where appropriate, sent to prison.

But it's far more important that those voters for whom it's possible, and that's most of them, reconnect their morals and intellect to their political beings. They'll need better leadership for that, but that could return them to a functional and principled path amazingly quickly. It'll probably take longer.

Those who can't on both sides, the ones who would have it happen here, have always been with us. It's always everyone else's job to keep them, their extremism, contempt for truth, vicious partisanship, abandonment of principles and mindless loyalty to bad leaders from getting control.

It's our failure I hate. But we can restore the America we inherited and go on to make the future better than the past has ever been. We're not the first. Our grandparents did it before us.

Eye on the prize.

like in the McCarthy days.

I wish Madam Speaker would have used that line when the yutz asked her if she hates him. Would have used a line the evangelicals use all the time as an excuse for treat people like crap but claim it is out of love.

But conservatism is an amoral ideology. Hate that.

Combined with with crushing defeat

Otherwise we enable them.

Hate is far too negative of an emotion and it takes effort to sustain. I refuse to give them that much power over my life.

Maybe that means I don't have your respect; I can live with that.

They vote republican. I consider them republican. They are rare in that we can carry on civil conversations, and usually agree that something needs to be done, we simply differ markedly on what we think that something is.

Having said that, current situation being what it is, if I find out someones’ political persuasion prior to making a connection, I can honestly say I’d choose not to. Probably cost myself some decent interaction with some otherwise quality people, but it’s come to that.

...who love America and that they are needed in our government to balance things out.

But that’s none of my business.

The fact that this blight ever started terrifies me.

We have serious problems

They're the kid who screams in the middle of the store because they are not getting a toy, while all the sane parents tell their children that this is the kind of kid who you shouldn't be like.

But mostly the Republicans by about 1000%.

Sorry

Many Republicans are merely unthinking followers. These Republicans are dangerous but pitiable.

Those leading the pitiable masses are simply beneath my contempt.

More importantly, like Madam Speaker, I was taught as a child that I should not hate anyone.

There's not a one of them in the lot who is worth the effort that it takes to hate someone. They're all worthless fucks. I don't waste my energy on worthless fucks.

can't take toxic hateful ones.