Hey, I just (finally) found this. It's called They Fucking Hate You and the author is John Cole. It's been linked by a few people here, but it features a long discussion and if you haven't read it, you must. It should be required reading for all Kossacks.
I have an issue with something here though, and it's the same issue I have been subtly trying to opine by repeating it via frequent comments all over your nicely written diaries. It's this:
Hate is failure to the liberal view, a submisison to weakness. A “good” liberal does not give over to hate, preferring to embrace the goodness in everything.
My parents raised me like this. I believe it down to my central core of being, but as I've said, I've learned that I have a problem with it. See, I've seen a business I helped start decimated by Bain when the money grubbers at the top (who didn't completely know that the unknown source of revenue that helped start the company came from me and my backers) decided to use that firm's consulting services. The bill came in and they got out from under pretty quickly, but a smaller company would have been burdened by their billing atrocities and methods for decades - if they lasted that long. Bain's method is to overbill for services already rendered, and when the companies can't pay, they "over-see" parts of the day to day workings and typically dismantle the company piece by piece - Bain didn't get rich by a willingness to work with them, at least, not like that. It happened because of hatred for what we were trying to accomplish there which was to create an 100% employee owned profit-shared company. They stymied that objective.
I've seen kids in public schools (I'm public schooled) purposefully deface books, steal answer keys for tests, ruin sports equipment, spit in fountains, burn random things, and just generally vandalize the facilities simply to ruin it for the next generation of "socialist" kids - they get it that early from their parents. I've seen moms purposefully put pins in their own kids Holloween candy in order to then inspect it and "find it" so that they could then point out a particular home to the child in question and explain that that's just how liberals were.
I've seen voting rights stolen because the people there are trained to target and challenge liberals, because they hate the idea of being controlled by us, even though we like the idea of sharing control. I've heard gun rights advocates gently remind people that "we have more guns than the Northerners do, don't worry!" knowing full well that I am from the far North in an effort to intimidate and alienate me.
I'm not advocating hate, I'm really not. However, if we don't use just as much force against them that their hate allows them to use against us here's what's going to happen, because THEY FUCKING HATE YOU! They are going to shoot you. They are going to take away your rights to shoot back. They are going to give you a leader you don't want. They are going to take away your right to remove that leader. They are going to take your money from you. They are going to blame you for not having money that they just took away from you. They are going to make you hurt. They are going to laugh at your pain (look at the Hurricane Sandy comments on Yahoo for an immediate example of this). They are going to extort your resources, launder your money, frame you for crimes you didn't commit, short-sheet your bed, punch holes in your roofs (but only after you've paid for your house), and land-lock your house by purchasing access roads and blocking them. They are going to just fuck with your lives until you want or try to commit suicide. Then, to top it off, they'll say something like, "We're not that bad he must have had other issues," which I've actually heard them say in response to a kid who was bullied over the course of 15 years after they finally committed suicide.
Hate isn't good, but hating hate is. I'm beginning to think there are two types of hate. Ours - positive, and theirs - negative. Use this. Use this to your advantage in order to stay alive and keep this world free of their negative type of hate. I've come to the conclusion that the idea of liberals failing if they hate conservatives - you know, using their own tactics against them - sounds like some idea a conservative would plant to keep liberals from organizing against them.
So go ahead. I give you permission. You may fucking hate them back. It's okay. Our hate is better than theirs. At a certain point, not doing it back just makes you look like you lack a spine. It's a bad precedent, but then, so is letting them enslave us because we failed to fight back due to being nice.
Tue Nov 06, 2012 at 10:16 PM PT: Lost track of this diary - noticed it start to trend and then vanish and figured it was the language issue in the title. It's okay, it got people talking and that's the main point of the site for me (and some venting), not necessarily getting front page coverage.
The halloween candy incident wasn't made up. "I've seen moms" doesn't infer many - you can read it both ways and some of you chose to, but it was only one incident. Aside from this comment - it stands as written or then I lack backbone, right?
Thanks again!