Dick Wade

No modern political event will make sense until you understand the two reasons why a man will hate you. He will hate you because you harm him, which is easy to understand. And he will hate you because he harms you. No, that's not backwards. That is what you must understand. Here's how it works. Once upon a time, a man was given an ultimatum. He had to dissociate himself from me, or his long-term benefactor would withdraw all support. Some people deliberate from principle, while others examine their bread to determine with side it is buttered on. I try not to judge people too harshly if they don't have much butter. But, suffice to say, he followed his benefactor's commands, despite having nothing in particular against me. But he then began to dislike me, and make childish comments behind my back. This was utterly predictable if you understand how humans work. See, having acted against me, he needed to feel that his actions were just. A man who has harmed you needs you to deserve it, so that he can still feel good about himself. And he will find excuses to think that, because humans are good at telling stories. Welfare takers don't hate you even though your taxes keep them alive. They hate you because your taxes keep them alive. The criminal underclass doesn't rob you because they hate you. They hate you because they rob you. The teeming brown hordes of the third world don't hate you because of history. They hate you because they want to ruin your country and take all your stuff. Bernie Sanders doesn't try to tax away everything you have because he hates you. He hates you because he wants to tax away everything you have. It's important to understand this difference. If a man hates you because you have hurt him, you can appease him. You can apologize, you can make amends, and he can forgive you if he chooses to. Because forgiving you doesn't violate his self-image. But if a man hates you because he has hurt you, then you can never appease him. The more you are kind to him, the more you try to placate him, the more sympathy and understanding and gifts you provide, the more he will find reasons to hate you. Because if you are good, then he is bad. So you can never be good in his eyes. This is why no amount of sympathy is ever enough. This is why reparations for fictional injuries are a demand that never ceases. This is why communists want to kill you, no matter how much you benefit them. And the more you do for them, the more they will hate you and want to kill you. You must never turn the other cheek unless you struck first. You must never apologize unless you have actually done wrong. You must never pay the Dane-geld, or you will never be rid of the Dane. You have to fight them. You have no choice. Because they do not hate for your sins. They hate you for theirs. And they will continue to hate you until you punish them. Only when they have been punished do they stop needing to tell stories about how you really deserved what they did. Mercy is for after you take vengeance, not before.