One Piece in the Puzzle of Hate

Surprise. We live in dangerous and serious times.
The rising sun of China and the simmering threat to Taiwan. The Iran nuclear threat. Genocide in Sudan. Global Islamic terror. Unhindered movement of arms from the former SSRs. Unchecked illegal immigration. Sexual slavery. Insane petty tyrants. Raging oil prices. Environmental devastation. The looming collapse of Social Security and Medicare. Rampant obesity. The Bird Flu. AIDS. Mumps. Cancer. E.D.. The scourge of crows feet. Stubborn belly fat.
Oh yes, we live in dangerous and serious times.
But in all truth, they are not such special times.
The world is a dangerous place. Always has been.
And that fact is literally driving the Left insane.
Let me explain. (Please excuse the Leftist mind frame)

There was a time, not so many years ago, when life was nearly perfect. Free love and free sex, sit-ins and drop-outs, turn-ons and tune-outs. A time when peace could save the world. Where no man was evil, only misunderstood. When ‘the man’ was the greatest threat to a decent life and anti-establishment the proper recourse. Patriarchy finally teetered toward terminal collapse. Camelot claimed the White House. And all the Heavens and Earth shone with a hazy warm humming soft glow.
But then came Viet Nam. The death of innocence in Dallas. And the darkness of Nixon. The Cold War. The American hostages. The implosion of Communism. Reagan and AIDS.
These were dark times. Surely dark enough to make any right thinking Liberal question his deepest held beliefs.
Could the world really be such a dangerous place? Maybe peace hasn’t always been the answer. Might evil, in fact, exist? Can all our presumptions have been based simply in a childlike naivete? Can this be what it means to grow up?
Ahh, but just then there were the Clinton years. A return to Camelot and our first black President. A booming economy. The rebirth of compassion. A world again finally safe and secure. Clear sparkling water and the freshest of air. America again shining and pure. Peace blossomed anew. Our future so bright we had to wear shades.
Until...
...Bush stole the 2000 election.
And with him brought September 11th and the resurfacing reality of a dangerous world. The creeping return of fear, worry, hatred, and dread. His illegal presidency bursting our bubbles of safety and tech stocks. The world hated us and deservedly so. We became racists, homophobes, profilers, and killers. Life more and more seemed uncertain, hard, and treacherous. It seemed like we were on our own. Our civil rights dropping like White Cross at Woodstock to a messianic empire building fascist fool.
For all this he will be surely made to pay.
Pay with jabs at his character. Insults to his intelligence. Questions regarding his motivations. Attacks on his policies. Lies about his past.
Evil walks the Earth now in the guise of an American administration and any degradation is righteously offered and surely well founded.

So this, then, is where the true schism begins in the mind of the Leftist.
If Bush is truly evil, then evil must truly exist. If he is to be blamed for all these wrongs in the world, then the world must be chock full of wrongs. If he can cause so many to hate America, then the world must surely be a dangerous place. If so many here who profess peace and love, abhor and wish the worst for him, then peace and love are mere words. Freed from all meaning.
It gets worse.
If these things are indeed true, then the ideas formed and actions taken during the time many on the anti-establishment Left consider the most meaningful of their lives end as nothing but lies and youthful delusion. The sixties then were just childish self-masturbation. Wasted brain cells. And wasted time. The importance with which they have seeded this time in American history, and their part in it, simply more self-deception.
Truths the immature mind takes no great pleasure in accepting.
This self-discovery leads then to even more hatred and bile directed toward the object which forced it to the surface in the first place. Anger and repression do a two-step in the Leftist mind. And lashing out, then, is never far behind.
Thus the circle of attacks and self awareness begin again. Playing out in a spiral towards insanity.
Yes, we live in dangerous and serious times.

Crossposted @ The Wide Awakes