Hating

I HAD HOPED I had had a bad dream. And perhaps, in a sense, I had. Is it Hinduism or Buddhism in which life is the dream of the great dreamer? Both? The president of the United States, at the border, calling immigrants "animals". Saying that they are not human. Parr for the course, of course, and yet, not acceptable. The nation rose up in anger, and removed him from office.. End of story. I wish. In the bad dream, the nation either ignored it, or agreed with it, much as another nation once passively ignored or agreed with another right wing populist demagogue with well prepared hair when he asserted that Jews are animals. And technically, they were both correct. Immigrants and Jews are animals, because all humans beings are, primates, more specifically, descended not from monkeys but descended along with monkeys from a common ancestor which no longer exists. Problem is, The orange haired primate intended nothing technical with his identification, and everything demeaning, insulting, dehumanizing. The orange haired orangutan is frighteningly remindful of the Charlie Chaplin look alike petty dictator who took uppers in the morning and downers in the evening, and hatred with passion. Intent is everything, wanted to make his nation 'great again", and strongly attracted teh hateful, the bigoted, and the angry white male. its the thought that counts. america, the land of thoughts and prayers. perhaps if our prayers were less intended for our own benefit we would stop seeing ourselves as so very superior, and others as animals. Upon examining the many forms of home sapiens sapiens categorical hatred against various categories of homo sapiens sapiens, the examiner constructs, by sheer necessity, a rather impressively long list. Gay folks in recent years have enjoyed a rapid rise from the ranks of the widely despised to now near normal humanhood, a combination of their being widely dispersed throughout demography, every family has one, to a well organized, inexorable pressure propaganda campaign. When I was a child it was illegal to be gay, and the worse insult one heterosexual child could hurl at another was "queer", and "queerbait". Even being attractive to gay people was a great sin, to be avoided at the cost or ridicule and ostracization. My, haven't we made progress? If you do the math, you discover that almost no matter who you are, you either still are, or have lately been, the object of hatred and discrimination. If you just add up all the women, the African-Americans, the Hispanics, the homosexuals, the transgenders, the native Americans, the Irish, the oriental, the Catholic, the non religious, the very young and the very old, the mentally disabled, the physically disabled, the poor, all at one time or another and in one way or another an "out group", what you have left is heterosexual middle class Christian white men between the ages of eighteen and sixty five, of sound mind and body. In other words, humans are by nature elitists and conformists. Anyone not a member of the five percent, or one percent is second or third class. It is observable that the lion's share of violence and terrorism in America is currently being perpetrated by the "in group", the only unhated group in America, the young white, angry, bigoted, petty tyrant adoring male. The poor little darlings feel unloved, as if hordes of the lesser sorts of animals are ganging up on them, demanding not equality but complete control, threatening their social superiority. They and their fuhrer will not be replaced by Jews, Muslims, women, African-Americans, gay folks, or any by God else. They and their fuhrer, wearing their cute make America great again blood red ball caps, will so do by restoring hegemony to its rightful owners, the youngish white middle aged heterosexual male animal, atop the animal kingdom, as always.