What we are witnessing in America today is a deliberate effort to rebrand cruelty as strength, division as patriotism, and hatred as love of country.
Despite what ad companies and politicians want us to believe, love is not sentimental platitudes, flashy gestures, or expensive gifts.
Love is powerful. It is transformative. It is radical.
As a political force, love is dangerous to those who rule by fear, division, and control.
It refuses to dehumanize. It refuses to surrender community. It refuses to turn neighbor against neighbor or to hate on command. Ultimately, it refuses to abandon the idea that we belong to one another—that we share a common humanity, a common fate, and a common responsibility to one another.
That kind of love—the kind embodied by Jesus Christ, by Martin Luther King Jr., and by those who in every age refuse to surrender their humanity in the face of empire—has always been a threat to systems built on militarism, materialism and domination.
This is not about party politics, or which side can shout louder, quote more scripture, or claim the moral high ground.
It is about what happens when those in power discover that a divided people are easier to manipulate than a united one—and that hate is not a byproduct of politics, but one of its most effective weapons.
We can’t even turn on a football game without being subjected to a demonstration of how outrage is manufactured and division monetized.
This nation is being destabilized by forces that masquerade as political movements, but dig down deep, and you’ll find that power and greed work the same no matter which party hat they wear.
The “politics of hate” is a bipartisan tool.
The division that is tearing this country apart is not an accident. It has been cultivated, weaponized, and exploited.
As a result, life in America has become a gut-wrenching, soul-sucking, misery-drenched existence.
By John and Nisha Whitehead
LewRockwell.com
Full Article: Rutherford.org — Politics of Hate
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