Seems to me that Rush, the FOX crew and Trump did NOT inject hatred into our society and they

[Bucky]

2. I dunno. My experience with emotions and faulty perceptions is that they grow if fed

If you take the view that the hatred and bigotry and anger were already just there already in peoples' hearts, then you're taking a pretty grim view of your fellow human beings.

I think they've been given a mythology of power and nihilism and it feeds into their psychological need to bond and belong. But I can't give up on the idea that more people can be won over to hope if given proper leadership and inspiration. I think what I've studied about the nation that beat the Depression and fascism and Jim Crow and Communism and the crippling poverty that existed before the Great Society still exists. I don't think we've lost that character, only that we've lost touch with it.

I don't see why I'd fight to beat the 21st century problems if we couldn't show our fellow human beings a better way. It won't be easy, of course, but nothing worth accomplishing ever is.