Hate - Now It's Putinhate

Putinhate - now there's a term worth considering.

Before Putinhate it was Trump Derangement Syndrome from mid-2016 all the way through the first half of 2021 when hatred for the unvaccinated took over the minds of the haters. In America there is a coalition of the entire left wing plus the neocon wing of the right that has been maintaining this hate, the Trump Derangement Syndrome, the hatred for the unvaccinated, and now the hatred for Putin and all things Russia.

You say the word "hate" is too strong a word? Here's some back-up for my thesis:

Taking Putin Out: The Putsch of The Pussycats

The Democrats didn't always hold the honor of being the hate generators. Back at the turn of the century it was the voice of the late Rush Limbaugh that most encompassed America's lust for hate. Through his voice America came to hate Latino immigrants - "illegals" - as well as anything Islam or Russian or Chinese, anything Socialist or Communist. Rush Limbaugh was "the" voice of conservative talk radio.

When 9/11 was thrust on the U.S. nearly the entire population of the country joined in with the hate against radical Islam. That hatred was wearing thin until Donald Trump came along in 2016 winning the Republican nomination for the presidential election. The leftist media then joined voices with leftist politicians and the remnants of right-wing CIA-loving neo-conservatives to foment hatred of Donald Trump and all of his followers. That hatred led directly to the bogus "Russian collusion" narrative that dominated the Trump presidency.

Never forget that fact. It's history.

When Covid came along, the left saw it as the perfect opportunity to defeat Donald Trump by using social distancing and lockdowns to justify the one thing that could defeat Trump, election fraud through bogus mail-in voting. Democrats had already mastered the art of election fraud but their machinery just wasn't enough to overcome popular support for Trump in 2016 over the atrocious Hillary Clinton. They needed unlimited access to fraudulent ballots and mail-in voting was just the ticket. What the Democrats couldn't do in 2016 they were able to accomplish in 2020.

Unfortunately, Trump's loss left a vacuum among the American left. All of a sudden it was hard to find the dopamine rush that hatred for Trump had given them each and every day of the Trump presidency.

But fear not, they found another object for the hate - people who had been exposed to the chatter that the Covid vaccines were dangerous, the "unvaxed". That hatred lasted until the vaccine narrative started falling apart early this year. But fortunately for the left, that's when Russia invaded the Ukraine.

Now we all have a common object for our hate-induced daily dopamine rush, something I am coining "Putinhate".

An Afterthought:

It dawned on me this morning that the whole point in "wokism" - the art of being "woke" - is to pin the tail of hate back onto conservatives. Wokism  to conservatives is an atrocity. What better way to piss off conservatives than to undermine the morals and the trust of our nation's future generations.