We know the left does not oppose hate per se, because it is uniquely gifted in practicing it, and preaching it, and inflicting it. It is FOUNDED on it. Without hate, they have nothing.
I woke up this morning feeling I have never actually hated anyone, myself. I have always said hate is a lot of work, and it is not repaid, at least for emotionally well people. If I disagree for one moment–or even express insufficient enthusiasm–for the propaganda de jour–soon to be de jure, if the actual haters get their way–then I am called a hater. They take the notion of hate, then add the appropriate propagandistic appellation.
Do you think the failure of blacks to thrive is in some measure their own fault? Then you are a hater and a racist.
Does it make you uncomfortable seeing two flamboyantly gay men adopting a little boy? Then you are a hater and a homophobe.
Do you take Muslim radicals at their word when they say they want to destroy America? Then you are a hater and an Islamophobe.
We all know the drill.
The actual point I wanted to make, before I got preachy, is that I think hate is a combination of fear and disgust. We have six primary colors of emotions, and hate is a mixture of those two. I don’t know that Ekman has said so–although he may well have–but it would seem to me that hatred and happiness are physiologically incompatible and likely opposites.
You cannot be a genuinely happy Communist, at least a practicing Communist.