Creating Hatred

Saturday, June 6, 2026

Yesterday I wrote, “I have always considered politics a mirror of our culture.  Right now, if we are completely honest, the image is not pretty.  The image is one primarily of distaste, discord and hatred.  Our politics seeks not to build, but to oppose.”  Nowhere is this more evident than in the current scandal surrounding the Southern Poverty Law Center.  The SPLC was paying for impotent white supremists to continue their activities just so the SPLC had something to oppose….

David Harsanyi puts it this way in a recent op-ed, “White nationalists and identitarian groups have no genuine political power or support, so it makes sense that SPLC and other groups would prop them up for fundraising.”  But Harsanyi goes on to point out that there is a deeper motive for the SPLC:

But a far more vital objective of the SPLC is destroying the reputations of effective legitimate organizations that are involved in mainstream political debates that have absolutely nothing to do with racism or extremism.

The purpose of the “hate” maps and enemies’ lists compiled by SPLC isn’t to alert Americans about local skinheads, but to associate those skinheads with the American College of Pediatricians, Family Research Council, Ben Carson, Turning Point USA, American Family Association, and Moms for Liberty.

So let’s just make sure the picture is perfectly clear here.  The SPLC stood up some deeply disturbed and awful people so they could justify not merely their existence, but to use that awfulness as paint with which to color completely legitimate political opposition.  And thus evidence continues to pile up for my thesis yesterday.

In the end yesterday’s post noted that this political decline mirrors the decline of Mainline Protestantism in America.  What is truly upsetting to me is that you can see this same oppositionalism in the Mainline Protestant church.  They want to fight discrimination where no wrongful discrimination exists.  So desperate are they to oppose discrimination that they fail to discriminate against things that God has clearly said should be discriminated against – that even commonsense says should be limited.

Saddest though is that the church is meant to build things up, not oppose them.  Mostly to build people up so they could do good.  Think about it.  Those that opposed Jesus were those that reduced faith a a list of strict prohibitions.  Jesus’ message was that God does not want people prohibited, he wants them good – at which point the prohibitions will not be necessary.

In The Free Press yesterday, former Vice President Mike Pence argues that conservatives have forgotten what they believe in.  Again it would seem politics mirrors the church – which tells you who needs to improve first.

And Now, The Remainders In The Pile

Speaking of churches that have lost the thread…Unitarians lost their way long before now, but sheesh.

This monster movie writes itself.

The host being better than his usual goodness.

Quote Instapundit, “China is a$$hole.”

And finally California, where crime is common and creative.  They used to innovate good things, now bad ones.