Hate As A Political Weapon

[cross-posted at The Democracy Cell Project]

One look at the calendar and you know that some headlines just write themselves.  

It's 6-6-6 and Satan's Workshop is in session in Washington, D.C. again this morning, trying to build hate into the U.S. Constitution.

In a sharply parallel move, we find out yesterday that the Pentagon has decided to leave some parts of that quaint document, The Geneva Conventions, out of the U.S.Army Field Manual, the book that governs our troops behavior.

And we have Ann Coulter greeting us this morning on The Today Show.

Hate, it seems, is all around.  It's a strategy, a means to an end, and that end is usually power.  Nothing new there.  But what's new to me is this overwhelming prescience about the onslaught of hate that is yet to come in the next few months leading up to the election.  

In 2002, they used anger.

In 2004, they used fear.

Now, they will use hate.

How do you fight hate as a political weapon?