We are sharing a nation with people who hate our guts.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

How did it ever come to this?

[Proud liberal 80]

1. Right wing hate radio, FoxNews, Drudge, FaceBook, etc

[AlexSFCA]

2. non stop instant disinformation, digital age

[MakeTXBlue2020]

3. 24 hour partisan news cycle, Rush Limbaugh, to name a couple things

[BannonsLiver]

4. In fairness, I hate their guts too.

Every bit as much as they hate mine, if not more so. Let’s just say if someone made me king for any length of time it would be very bad for some GOP politicians. And by bad, I mean bad in a Kim Jong Un sort of way.

[ProfessorGAC]

5. The Feeling Is Mutual

And, I'm unashamed.

[Delarage]

7. This n/t

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

6. 25% of Americans are evangelicals.

Hate religion is a sizeable factor.

[DFW]

8. Two words, one of them a lie

Fox "News"

Pure Republican propaganda 24/7, and they don't give a rat's ass if what they are saying has a grain of truth or not. They are appealing to the angry, the frustrated, the lonely, and the downright cruel and twisted. They are not few, and some of them are looking for hand to feed their emptiness, even if that hand is a claw, and demands a soul as payment.

[Spider Jerusalem]

9. The answer to that is very simple

the USA is a country that was explicitly founded on the principle of white supremacy. As long as the USA continued to have a majority white population, then white supremacy was maintained de facto if not de jure; demographic changes in the past few decades mean that whites will cease to be a majority of the population within the next 20-30 years (in some places like California whites are already a minority). The modern "conservative movement" is based on the exploitation of white racial resentment (goes all the way back to Nixon's "Southern Strategy" and Barry Goldwater running on an anti-Civil Rights Act platform). Trumpism is just cranking things up and saying the quiet parts out loud, and it turns out that around 60% of white people really like the message.

[misanthrope]

21. For an arachnid you have an in-depth understanding

of things. I guess it's easy to get your limbs wrapped around them when you have eight of them.

[lapfog_1]

10. 40 years of right wing radio

I grew up in a small town in Kansas... most people were republicans... even my parents "knew" Bob Dole. Sure there were the anti-fluoride people and the John Birch Society... but everyone looked at them as kooks and crazy people.

Now, 40 or 50 years later... 40 years of listening to Rush and his ilk... 40 years of changing demographics (they will always say they aren't racist, but they always cross the street if they see a group of black teens coming their way)...

we have Trumpanzees through out the rural parts of our nation.

They have been brainwashed to hate us.

[rso]

11. Hate

And the feeling is mutual.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

12. 'Twas ever thus. This country was built on bones. Its framework is white supremacy.

It'll take more than an election to fix. It'll take a reckoning.

[Cracklin Charlie]

13. They don't hate us all the time.

I’m currently monitoring a family member, who is on hate book shouting and cursing about the criminal libs stealing an election.

She doesn’t talk about me that way when she needs a sitter for her mean little kid.

Ps...I always turn her down. She probably still hasn’t figured out why.

[SayitAintSo]

16. Yeah there's going to have to be a family intervention...

To get me and my QAnon sister speaking again (it's been since April). There are these stories all across America in families, close-knit families. And then there are the friendship circles. That's the next big news story, or should be. And I feel like I've just woken up to this secondary horror (first one being covid) we have in our current culture. Meanwhile, down here in this godforsaken red-state, you have people screaming at each other in parking lots ' take off that fffing mask'... seriously.

[Brainfodder]

14. We are nasty and deserving of hate and ridicule!

That is what they bought and were sold and spread it among themselves over years non-stop by their media choices.

RW media wouldn't know truth, that aint their goal, it's to make $ and they manipulate the manipulatable to that end.

It's big onion to peel!

Meanwhile it's a loose affiliation at best, a political party with some fools needing to feel like part of a group taking it too far?

I took Rush getting the MoF as a big yuge FUCK YOU from Death Count Donnie, I am pretty appalled at this election being remotely close! I thought he had pretty much offended 90%+ of Americans, but RW was fed that Biden is sleepy, creepy, and feeble?

If you bought all that and ignore all his crimes and baggage, you are a little too into it, and blindly loyal?

[liberalmuse]

15. Conservatives have been demonizing Liberals for decades.

I had a coworker 20 years ago who seemed friendly enough, until one day I heard her say she agreed with something Ann Coulter said along the lines of "liberals should be killed". Now they have a bloated orange mascot who's legitimized their horrible behavior, in a sense.

[lunatica]

17. It's always been like this.

Every ethnic and racial group that has been forced to come here or emigrated here has been despised and hated and persecuted. That should be taught in schools instead of the rah, rah exclusively White history crap we get now.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

18. Hate radio hate tv,hate groups on reddit

Hateful cops,ect.

And a whole lot of narcissists authoritarians and sociopaths.

It's that 1/3
Of our population has a toxic personality problem.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5680983/


https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/per.2228

[nancy1942]

19. The feeling is mutual.

[Mariana]

20. One of my elderly relatives really and truly believes

that if Biden is president, he's going to confiscate her savings and leave her broke. Also, Kamala Harris is a communist. How do you even begin to reason with someone like this? She's likely to start hiding cash within the walls of the house, or burying it in the backyard - and I'm her executor. What a mess that would be.

Meanwhile, on Monday my father told me he was going to have a loaded shotgun handy on election night, in case Antifa come to loot and burn his house in The Villages, Florida. He really believes this might happen. Also, Kamala Harris is a communist. I don't plan to call him until after the winner is announced, because I'm just too stressed out to deal with the crazy.

They hate us because they live in abject terror of us. Propaganda works.

[alarimer]

22. I hate them too.

I don't think that's too strong a word.