Rampant Hate in America - Is There a Cure?

                   We've become a nation of haters.

It's too complicated to go into all of the reasons why. We know Trump has cultivated haters like a gardener in hell. But what led us to this precarious state of affairs?

For some context let's turn the date back to 2018 when an investigation examining intolerance, racism and hate crimes was conducted at the Arizona State University Walter Cronkite School of Journalism.

The project was called "Hate in America" and was sponsored by the Carnegie-Knight News21 program, a national multimedia reporting project produced by the nation's top journalism students.

What they found was an increase in those targeted in hate crimes by a surge of white supremacist and others who seek to victimize people. No surprise that it was Trump's first regime stirring the pot of hate nationally at the time.

The Southern Poverty Law Center tracked 835 antigovernment groups and 595 hate groups, totaling 1,430 hate and extremist groups in America last September. The FBI also released hate crimes data from the Uniform Crime Reporting Program as reported by law enforcement agencies across the country.

The data was horrifying. Those agencies reported 11,862 hate crime incidents involving 13,839 offenses. 

I wouldn't be surprised if the current Trump regime does away with hate crime reporting. After all, just look at how many criminals (haters all) he's pardoned in the last six months.

The purveyors of hate today have discovered it's a good way to sell hateful merchandise and capitalize on their message.

Is there a cure for stopping the spread of hate like wildfires? 

If there is I haven't heard of it. 

The politics of hate are too firmly embedded in our government and society. 

As it Stands everybody hates somebody these days. I hate Trump and his minions for actively destroying our democracy and creating an authoritarian state with him as the supreme dictator.