Are politics any reason to hate someone?

Question

I've seen several people get angry and curse and yell when their political views are called into question. Are politics really anything to get angry over? Why does it infuriate so many people when someone else has a different political opinion?

Answer 1

Imo, politics should never be a reason to hate someone. It's called, learning to agree to disagree and commonsense will tell you/me that we all don't think the same, which imo, is a good thing, because then it adds more to the discussion/debate/etc.

Answer 2

Because often that political view ends up supporting government actions that get people killed or take thousands out of my pocket. For example, if this congress, perhaps with the help of the next president, decides to surrender in Iraq, it will mean the deaths of untold thousands of innocent Iraqi's and do irreparable damage to the United States and our military. ('Progressives' don't understand this but this isn't the place to explain it.) Then too, when the government decides to create new entitlement programs that I do not agree with, which are of no benefit to me and then FORCE me to pay for them, that makes me angry. I have no choice. It's like forced charity. I give to the organizations that I believe have a genuine need. Half the time, the government's 'choice of charity' does not. But again, I have no choice.

The decisions the government make affect my life, those of Americans everywhere and as in the case in Iraq, lives around the world. If they're doing something ill considered or greedy at my expense, you can bet I'm going to get angry and I'm going to say something. Because now it's personal.

Answer 3

Not in America. If you don't like another person's politics, your options include: Voting, Campaigning for, or running, on a platform that opposes his/her views.,
Are politics anything to get angry about ? YES, If you really care about your Nation, then you should get angry when another person's ideas, or policies, are against the principles on which our country was built.{ ie: Constitution, Bill of Rights, etc.}

Answer 4

not in this country, we don't have dictators cutting off peoples heads or gassing people.

People think that Freedom of speech means they can make threats on the President or government leaders but that is still illegal, and if people take politics too far and hate people, then we will end up like one of the war torn countries like Iraw that we are trying to help get a Democracy going.

Answer 5

Nope, not at all.

In my family, my Mother is very liberal, my father is conservative. They have been happily married for 40 years. I am conservative, as is my husband, and my sister (who is also my best friend) is liberal as is her husband.

We all have the best political discussions. The reason it's fun is that we all respect each other's opinions and accept the fact that everyone has a right to their own views on things. Keep it polite, open minded and civil and it will be exciting and stimulating to debate politics.

But when it degenerates into juvenile name calling, it's not fun for anyone.

Answer 6

You raise a good point to an extent. The example I cite is how Republicans went bonkers over Clinton cheating on his wife and then lying about it under oath. Bad, certainly, but it resulted in exactly zero deaths.

Meanwhile, Bush and Cheney have lied to the American people, allowed no-bid contracts, decimated the once-sovereign nation of Iraq, killed its populace, let the American citizens of New Orleans drown, etc. etc. etc. In short, the Bush Cheney reign has been marked by rampant death.

If the debate is about say, money, or where to draw a border, or how to spend it, fine. Agree, disagree, move on.

But I think there is a VAST difference between the sins of Clinton and the sins of Bush (just count the bodies.) That's the personal reason I get mad: Republicans went nuts over Clinton, yet Bush gets a pass and he has done much more to destroy American (and kill Americans.)

Answer 7

Politics and religion are supposedly the taboos. I like discussing both. I have a friend who is almost as far left as you can yet. We have very lively debates, then we go eat lunch. I have nothing against anyone who feels different than I do. Think what a boring world it would be otherwise.
I won't use the word hate but it's the ignorant ones from both sides that won't look at all issues that really p*ss me off.

Answer 8

I agree with you, some people just take things they have no control over way to seriously and i do not understand why people get so upset over political views and the people that do get really upset over it usually have no knowledge on the subject anyway, just what they are raised to believe or told to believe in, like the opposing side is evil and there side is great....that is why religion and politics is something i refuse to talk about with people.

Answer 9

No...not a good reason to hate someone.

I've been in heated politicl debates with my best friends and we stay friends afterward. Politics and religion are difficult for people to argue because it exposes the deepest core of why we do things and who we are. People feel that when you disagree with these views you're telling them that they also don't like who they are. It's like telling an artist his painting is horrbile. That's why it gets so personal. People that can handle personal criticism are better suited for these types of debates.

Answer 10

We live in country with few oppressions by our (elected) politicians; we have reasons for argument or disgust, but nothing as strong as hatred.
Many people in many others nations before, now, and after us have suffered genocides and various forms of torture and martyrdoms against themselves and their friends and family.
They alone have a excuses for hatred for political reasons, in my opinion.