It’s happening and it won’t be easy to stop. “It” is the hatred coursing through America today. All generations and demographics are exhibiting this hatred, and much of it is quite misplaced.

But not everyone is buying into it. You must have a certain type of collective mindset in order to really be permanently invested. For instance, I find it fascinating to watch dozens of young people on campuses wearing keffiyeh scarves and chanting hateful slogans about their Jewish classmates and Zionism in general. Why aren’t the Jewish students chanting hateful rhetoric back at their classmates and Palestinians? I suspect it’s because the hateful people have been taught either in university or by online influencers about the “oppressive” class. What is this oppression about?

AI defines oppression as: “the prolonged, unjust, or cruel exercise of power and authority. It occurs when a dominant group or institution uses systemic power to marginalize, restrict, or burden another group, stripping them of agency, freedom, or equal opportunities. Understanding oppression requires examining its different forms, contexts, and psychological impacts…”

The actual and honestly the only definition is located in the first sentence, the prolonged, unjust, or cruel exercise of power and authority. The rest of the paragraph is new language that has been developed in our universities over the last 20+ years. It is no wonder that our young people have been collectivized in this way.

Real oppression happens when authority dictates what you can and cannot do, and hands out punishments that do not equal the corresponding infraction when you don’t comply with authority. Today’s oppression seems to be based on grievance, real or imagined, that may or may not exist, and much of which is “understood” through critical race theory (CRT) instruction. For instance, I am a white woman. Because of my “whiteness” I have advantages over a person of color even if that person has had my same opportunities and has achieved the same status as I have in income and position in the workplace. My race automatically gives me more “advantages” in our civilization, so the person of color should be afforded all current opportunities in the workplace over me. AND I am supposed to accept this as a consequence of my “whiteness”. BULL!!

Collective hate builds when we pit races against each other. This is the same for the sexes. Masking sexual preference with the term “identity” forms the human race into groups that have nothing to do with gender and everything to do with societal division. At some point all these differences lead to a chaos that produces a breakdown in cultural norms. No country can sustain this shift for long. Family ties unwind, morality decays and allegiance to the nation becomes meaningless.

What about collective hate towards the President of the United States of America? This hate is part of a deeper divide. Hating President Trump is simply an excuse to bash our democratically elected leader who is actually following our norms of democracy in our republic. The haters will call him a threat to democracy, but their only solution is to destroy democracy to take him out. Make it make sense!

We will sustain our 251st year as a constitutional republic. We must turn any hate we have toward a constructive introspection of our God given individual rights and neighborly responsibilities. The framework has already been established and the civics must be taught in earnest without race or identity as its focus. We the people can do this.

Blessings and amen.