-Laelth

When they start whining, that's when I know we're doing something right.

-- Ron

As if any Republican didn't just stop reading there...

Drives libruls crazy

I talk about Right Speech (Buddhist concept, part of the Noble Eight Fold Path) and then I'm the bad guy all of a sudden. It's their choice to live in hatred and negativity.

Caroline Myss is a healer who says "Liars don't heal. Your body knows when you are not speaking the truth."

I'm assuming that hate eats you up in heart disease and stress. As somebody once said, hating someone is letting them live rent free in your head.

"There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed; for this mind, group hatreds take a place in politics similar to the class struggle in other societies.

[SG Note: I would argue that class hatred is a deflection from class struggle, as in pitting the working poor
against each other when they have a common enemy in the rich.]

"Filled with obscure and ill-directed grievances and frustrations, with elaborate hallucinations about secrets and conspiracies, groups of malcontents have found scapegoats at various times in Masons or abolitionists, Catholics, Mormons, or Jews, Negroes or immigrants, the liquor interests or the international bankers. In the succession of scapegoats chosen by the followers of this tradition of Know-Nothingness, the intelligentsia have at last in our time found a place."

Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, 1964. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction.

I recc'd your OP also

Except for that feral 40% that would welcome pure, unadulterated fascism.

Sad as well that most of the scapegoats remain the same.

Great quote, btw.

Many people now mistake courtesy for weakness, and rudeness for strength

I just quit. And he's right - they do think they are intelligent.....arhhhh

Because it is so very true.