If you thought this post is about the culture war, you’re close. It’s actually about something a bit larger: the GOP hatefest. The examples are too offensive and lengthy to replicate here, but you can read a list or this select list.

I noted earlier that the GOP has little to no room for moderates or those using reason. Its ideology is necessarily merciness and judgemental to enforce a purer blend so their quality of anger comepensate for shrinking quantity. They’ll personalize then offend to overheat and polarize the vote. They’ll defame and outrage against then bring down any system, especially governmental ones, which stand in their quest for ideological rule. Commentators posing a B-list reporters actively seed hate to harden the field for the 2010 and 2012 elections.

Let’s hope we’re better people than haters and can call it out.

Conservatism is similar to religion: both are easily and often used as an excuse to make hate speech and spread hate. Why are ideologies so prone to hatred? Their intolerance of dissent is itself an offensive, personal slap at all those unlike the ideologist. Ideologues/ideologists handily prefer only those like them. Ideologies are more judgemental over time as they gain systems, procedures, and followers which increase the ideology’s firmness.

Reason and thought have brought humanity far along in history thusfar. Let’s not let those principles fall to allow cheap, hateful ideologies to divide and conquer. We cannot have tests of loyalty (as Palin still does in her hinterland, not having learned her lesson last year). Politics of hate should see no victory as this nation is too good for such cheap, debased ideologues. Logic and reason should be sufficient to win any battle without resorting to personal sledgehammering.

The idea that the GOP might reverse its hateful trend is amusing and quaint. Some think it’s just a part of their search for identity. We, however, have seen their unchanging face in the last 9 years, or even their last 30 years since Nixon’s politics of hate. Some think it’s just a few crooked leaders, but I wouldn’t say it’s just a few. Some say it’s politics as usual. Wrong again.

If you’re in DC this Wednesday evening, don’t forget to attend AAA-Fund’s Annual Celebration Dinner.

- Richard Chen