Robert Reich On ‘The Haters’
Click here for reuse options!The real dividing line in America today isn’t between conservatives and liberals or between Democrats and Republicans. It’s between the haters and the big-hearted. The haters direct their venom not just at child refugees seeking asylum from the drug war we created, but also at gays who want to marry, African-Americans who want to vote and exercise their other rights of citizenship, women who seek abortions, or even women in general, Latinos who want their children to be taught in Spanish, immigrants in general, Muslims, Jews, government “bureaucrats,” the poor and needy, anyone who dares suggest a required background check before buying guns, people they call “liberals” or “socialists” or “communists,” even the President of the United States. The haters are enflamed by hate-mongers in the media who blame the nation’s troubles on “them.” The haters are loud and angry; they yell and wave their signs before the cameras. But the haters are not America. They are a small and vocal minority. Most Americans are generous and welcoming, decent and kind-hearted. We are the silent majority, who have been silent too long.
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mea_mark July 13th, 2014 at 14:48
So what we need is some very loud inflamed rhetoric about peace, love, understanding and general compassion toward fellow humans. I think I see a little problem here …
edmeyer_able July 13th, 2014 at 14:59
You can get your daily dose by watching Bill O’reilly.
Fisherman3 July 13th, 2014 at 15:03
Or listening to Obama!
William July 13th, 2014 at 15:18
Congrats on that snappy post.
fancypants July 13th, 2014 at 20:11
or Hannity who is or was sitting on the rio grande as of last Friday. who also said he was moving out of NYC because of all the illegals in that city.
Lets hope glen beck gets a neighbor !
William July 13th, 2014 at 15:20
As do I.
mea_mark July 13th, 2014 at 14:48
So what we need is some very loud inflamed rhetoric about peace, love, understanding and general compassion toward fellow humans. I think I see a little problem here …
edmeyer_able July 13th, 2014 at 14:59
You can get your daily dose by watching Bill O’reilly.
Fisherman3 July 13th, 2014 at 15:03
Or listening to Obama!
William July 13th, 2014 at 15:18
Congrats on that snappy post.
fancypants July 13th, 2014 at 20:11
or Hannity who is or was sitting on the rio grande as of last Friday. who also said he was moving out of NYC because of all the illegals in that city.
Lets hope glen beck gets a neighbor !
William July 13th, 2014 at 15:20
As do I.
HoofHugs July 13th, 2014 at 15:55
You are not on the right paradigm. You are on the non-challenging group-speak paradigm you’ve heard, but there is a group within your party that have betrayed the rest of us. Senator Reid’s bizarre behavior is designed to prevent it from ever coming to light.
HoofHugs July 13th, 2014 at 15:55
You are not on the right paradigm. You are on the non-challenging group-speak paradigm you’ve heard, but there is a group within your party that have betrayed the rest of us. Senator Reid’s bizarre behavior is designed to prevent it from ever coming to light.
Dino Bryant July 13th, 2014 at 17:15
I am with Reisch on most of this stuff but I take exception to being calling hateful because I oppose elective abortion. I oppose the abortion and the Death Penalty on the same grounds. Humans taking human life is wrong.
KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker July 13th, 2014 at 18:05
A woman terminating her pregnancy is nothing at all like capital punishment.
Dino Bryant July 13th, 2014 at 17:15
I am with Reisch on most of this stuff but I take exception to being calling hateful because I oppose elective abortion. I oppose the abortion and the Death Penalty on the same grounds. Humans taking human life is wrong.
KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker July 13th, 2014 at 18:05
A woman terminating her pregnancy is nothing at all like capital punishment.
Peter Williams July 13th, 2014 at 18:34
I’ll remember that next time a hater stabs me in the back
Peter Williams July 13th, 2014 at 18:34
I’ll remember that next time a hater stabs me in the back
Obewon July 13th, 2014 at 19:28
Anybody sane throughout the entire Earth wonders how top global economy U.S. xenophobic haters falsely attempt to rationalize their greedy cheap actions against everything humane. American’s are very fortunate to create and spend a record $16 trillion annually via 25% of annual global $66 T GDP.
As LL’s Alan pointed out recently cons coveting greed against the poor was an invention of Reaganomics and wasn’t ever an enviable virtue.
Obewon July 13th, 2014 at 19:28
Anybody sane throughout the entire Earth wonders how top global economy U.S. xenophobic haters falsely attempt to rationalize their greedy cheap actions against everything humane. American’s are very fortunate to create and spend a record $16 trillion annually via 25% of annual global $66 T GDP.
As LL’s Alan pointed out recently on his radio show, cons coveting greed against the poor was an invention of Reaganomics and wasn’t ever an enviable virtue.
fancypants July 13th, 2014 at 19:49
Robert reich forgot one small detail >
American Jobs. This list comes from Lou Dobbs as he is not happy about this trend of us losing such a huge Tax Base not to mention JOBS
Here are companies gone out of the USA…
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104×1144493
fancypants July 13th, 2014 at 19:49
Robert reich forgot one small detail >
American Jobs. This list comes from Lou Dobbs as he is not happy about this trend of us losing such a huge Tax Base not to mention JOBS
Here are companies gone out of the USA…
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104×1144493