OK; the hatred issue. Time to put it down.
Liberals are currently acting as if hatred against a sitting president is brand new. They thought they had a Teflon president, but apparently he's not.
The way liberals hated Richard Nixon and George W. Bush helped set the standard for presidential hatred, and now they're reaping the benefits of what they accomplished.
Not that the Republicans are innocent--they're not. But don't pretend there isn't a history here as complex and long-standing as any feud.
Where did it begin? With Lincoln? No, before that even.
And each generation of haters produces the next, each more dedicated than the previous one to roiling the waters, playing havoc with civil peace, challenging the Constitution by stretching "freedom of speech" to its utmost.
As long as people believe that hatred is a positive force, this will go on.
We should teach in schools this truth, as a poet or philosopher has said: "Hatred is a poison that a person consumes in the hope that it will hurt someone else."
Hatred always turns on the hater, and the only defense is to stop hating.
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