Too Much Hatred, So Little Time
By Henry Schulte
I captured this photo a couple years ago on Ballard Canyon Road in Santa Ynez. It had a mystical quality where you could imagine Jesus sitting under the tree contemplating and praying.
At first, this column had me ripping into the Democrats over their horrific, deceptive display over one gang member. With their backs turned on Americans, and the lowest approval rating in decades, the Democrats and all their socialist counterparts – which includes the media – never look behind them. There are 300 million people wondering what the heck they are thinking. We didn’t have a say in allowing criminals to enter our country en masse; we better have a say in kicking them out.
Don’t think the cartels aren’t watching.
I switched my column up on Easter Sunday morning and then again after Pope Francis died on Monday. I don’t consider myself a religious man, even though I have been raised a Catholic. As I’ve mentioned before, my wife got me to go to church again about a year ago
One of the main reasons why I enjoy going is because of one man, a special priest who will remain nameless unless told otherwise. This Father engages his “audience.” He begins by asking who the visitors are and goes up the aisle and speaks with each of them. He recognizes birthdays and says mass, offering a very personal touch for those who are suffering, dying, or dealing with addictions.
There’s one thing he always speaks of and did so again at the sunrise mass on Easter Sunday. Father prayed for Putin to change his heart and see the light. Father added his ongoing prayer to end all the hate. You could see how the word pains him. The pope expressed the same feelings.
The black hearts who wish Trump dead are wretchedly astonishing. The continuous use of the word Nazi is more than hateful; it’s repulsive. The Nazis killed millions of human beings and that name should never be used against anyone except the Nazis. The Trump haters who are destroying property and shouting in the streets must find some peace. Spittle shooting from their mouths, their faces contorted in anger, eyes like daggers of death because they don’t agree with policies.
Easter morning, I couldn’t help but draw a comparison with Jesus and Trump. I’m in no way saying Trump is like Jesus; I’m saying the public persecution of the two men run parallel courses. Minnesota governor Walz’s daughter made the stupid statement that if Jesus were here today, Trump would deport him as a member of MS-13. Why are killers being so heavily defended, just as Barabbas was over Jesus? History will bear out that the hatred of Trump will be more than that over Adolf Hitler. Trump’s sins? Caring about the people of America.
The Democrats’ rage and determination to destroy one man is no different than the high priests who served under Pontius Pilate. The anti-Trump mob mentality is the same too; the masses are shouting, “Crucify him!”
We know much of the Middle East hates the West. It’s unlikely that hatred will ever change. It’s been ingrained in their teachings; their children. It’s part of the fabric of their culture. Because of their never-ending hatred, many lives have been and will continue to be lost in the name of their god.
When Israel lost some 1,200 people butchered in a fashion reminiscent of the Middle Ages, the world was shocked… for a brief moment. That shock was quickly drowned out before it shifted toward supporting the killers who performed the horrific acts. It wasn’t long before the massacred took a back seat and Hamas was being praised for its actions. Way too many Americans sided with the mass murderers. We allowed this adoration to take place on our school campuses. The hatred expanded into the fabric of our own culture, and it became acceptable to support Hamas and hate the Jews. I grant you, the Palestinians are the collateral damage, but the blood is on the hands of Hamas, not Israel. It could all end in minutes but the hate by Hamas flows like poison in their veins.
And like the Maryland MS-13 “man of the year,” who has rapidly become a Democrat cult hero, the activists who have penetrated our schools and who rail against the Jews should also be deported for their hatred and undermining of America, but they too are being coddled.
Over the past four years America has twisted itself into a huge pretzel of hate. We find the challenges of trying to undo that pretzel to be very difficult.
America Needs Tough Love
Americans didn’t ask to deal with millions of uninvited guests. We’re a gracious nation but there’s a right way and a wrong way. It’s imperative we fix the wrong way, send our criminal “guests” home. In no way are Americans obligated to abide by the previous president’s underlings. There’s no need to suffer having our children killed and trafficked, women raped, innocents murdered, and towns taken over by gangs. Our rights should and do take precedence over those who wish us harm. That’s a hate we can’t fix. Throw out the rancid trash.
Americans don’t hate immigrants; we have compassion for their plight. We also have compassion for the starving, homeless and poverty-stricken in our own country. In many instances, if not all, those poorer nations are in a world of hurt because of their own governments. The corruption in those countries is the very direction America was going before Trump returned to end it. People would much rather stay in the home where they were born and raised. It’s impossible to expect any of these countries such as Mexico, Guatemala, Haiti, and others to fix such a deep-rooted mess at our expense. And remember, we were also flooded with Chinese no one speaks about.
Americans have so much to be grateful for. We can fix what is broken here at home. People are shouting “Hands Off!” I say hands off my wallet, my kids and corrupting government. We can’t allow hatred to stop us from making things right.
“Hate” is a caustic word, but it can be easily fixed with another: “Love.”
Thank you, Henry. TDS is a mental illness more than anything else. You can't reason with them. Two days ago, this woman on SB Current replied to my praise of Trump by saying I needed to stop watching Fox and start watching MSNBC, NPR, CNN and reading The New York Review of Books, etc. When I explained to her that not only do I not watch Fox News but as a freelance writer, I spent thirty years among the people who run the places she mentions, as well as being published in The New Yorker, NYT, The Atlantic - her response was that obviously I'm insane because I still like Trump despite having been around people who write that Trump is Hitler. How can you reason with someone who won't take in what you're saying? A normal response would be “Really? And you disagree with what they're writing about Trump? Do tell.” And I would have told her how it sickens me to watch media people I once respected become nothing more than propagandists and destroy our once strong and free press.
You don't have to love Trump in order to hate what the media has done to this country. And I use the word “hate” because I do hate it. You don't have to love Trump in order to hate what the Democratic Party has become and what they are doing to the once great state of California which is to turn it into a place completely controlled by them through their “sustainable” housing where only the people who support them will be given housing at all.
With all due respect for your priest, he's wrong to go on about Putin the way he did. I don't like Putin. But the people he should tell to stop hating are the people who put Zelensky in power, who put biolabs on the border and who used NATO to try to control Putin and who have caused the destruction and deaths in Ukraine.
And the same with Israel and Gaza. The hatred is not just from one side. And please don't anyone tell me I'm anti-Semitic for saying this.
Trump hatred is as irrational as it is disingenuous. Look no further than the inflammatory screed by regular Montecito Journal columnist Robert Bernstein in a recent issue. A total disconnect from his typical love, peace and good will approaches to the lighter side of local life.
Projections of the unmet Shadow in one's own soul would be how Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung would describe this degree of irrational hatred. What existential fears deep within the individual are in fact projected on just this one man?
Will understanding the role of the projected Shadow and re-owning this projected Shadow help lower the temperature of this current wave of all encompassing political hatred? And equally important, will understanding it on less personal level also help us? Not a time to lose focus, respond in kind to these chronic sideline distractions and false punditry, or lose heart. I direct this as much to myself, as anyone else. What does exposure to this all-encompassing Trump hatred trigger in me. (It's not fair mommy, he hit me first. - Injustice?)
We have undertaken a noble task, which is nothing less than honoring Benjamin Franklin's early warning. Saving our free-wheeling Republic. These disruptions are most likely integral to its ongoing renewal. Big Government vs Limited Government - the schism is as old at the US Constitution itself.