[aisenik]

Hatred is the appropriate response to evil and there is nothing that clarifies Good and Evil like the richest, deadliest, most powerful entity in the entire history of known life aligning itself and its resources towards eradicating you and your peers.

If you are driven to hate this administration, that is a good thing. They are evil, the rebirth of the exact evil identified in the Nazis: a total lack of empathy. Indeed, they claim empathy -- the most essential human emotion -- is a sin.

When you find burning hatred clouding your judgment, sit in it and know that your anger will protect you from injustice (that is the purpose of the emotion). Remind yourself that hate and anger cannot yield creation, and creation is the light of god that suffuses all things. Destruction is a terrible yet inevitable end that should only be induced to protect the weak and ameliorate suffering, so be just and resolute when you seek it.

It is ok to hate Neonazis, to say the least.

[keyserj]

> Destruction is a terrible yet inevitable end that should only be induced to protect the weak and ameliorate suffering, so be just and resolute when you seek it.

I think an issue with this reasoning is that "protect the weak" and "be just" are things that many people (admittedly not all) from "both sides" _do_ want to do, and that reality is often not so straightforward, involving tradeoffs that cannot be objectively evaluated as "just".

Personally I believe that a lot of disagreements in this realm come down to misunderstanding, in which case it's very sad to have to resort to destruction, when better communication and efforts to work together could create agreement or at least compromise. Admittedly resolving these misunderstandings is really hard, and I think a lot of us don't have the skills or tools to do so in a reasonable amount of time.

[aisenik]

I abhor destruction and it is troubling that we have ideologues in power who subscribe to the most odious philosophies mankind has created.

Your reticence and observations are astute.

For context, I was raised in a mormon home and have spent most of my life as a scientifically-minded atheist, which makes my recent connection with well-documented spiritual qualia remarkable to me.

[squigz]

> sit in it and know that your anger will protect you from injustice

An angry, hateful America is what led to this. How is that preventing injustice exactly?

[aisenik]

Anger is an emotion that enables us to identify threats and injustice. In that way, it protects us.

It's an emotion whose healthy expression is essential to functioning as a human being. I've had a lot of trauma therapy/done a lot of personal work in that domain and healthy angering is one of the hardest things I've had to learn.

Bad things will happen, but when we are connected with ourselves and have empathy for the people around us, anger is a vital indicator that enables effective proactive behavior.