Taibbi on hate
Matt Taibbi writes in “Keep on Hatin’” at Rolling Stone about the trap which could befall Democrats: fighting the GOP so intently that they becoming too much like them.
It is amazing to me that people can walk into a bookstore, see a pair of books whose titles begin with I Hate... , and still believe that the two books are different, simply because the politics of one are conservative and the politics of the other are liberal. Even though it is astoundingly obvious, I'm beginning to think that the vast majority of Americans will not realize until it is too late that this is the same shit. Hating the other guy, it's the new racism. It's imposed from above, like racism, and it serves the same purpose. It keeps the population mesmerized by irrelevant passions and distracted from their natural business of tending to their own real political problems.