Has anyone else ever wondered why the far left is so angry…so hateful?  The simple answer is that they have lost power because they cannot convince a majority of Americans to take their side.  But that is too simplistic.  The left is angry even when they have power.  There has to be a deeper answer.

To get to that answer we have to look at the target of leftist anger.  Certainly they target individuals and groups.  But the one consistent target of leftist hatred is America itself.  So now we can ask the real question:  Why does the far left hate America?

I believe that it often really does have to do with power, but in a way that is different from what we usually believe.  Evidence can be found in a place that most won’t look…the “victim” literature. 

A very large segment of the left consists of those who consider themselves to be victims.  Some have never really been victimized.  Some of them have been victimized in a variety of ways.  But, rather than viewing themselves as people who have been victimized, they view themselves as Victims…Victims with a capital V…Victims for perpetuity… perpetual victims.  This group is large.  

Much of the rest of the left is comprised of those who further victimize these people by affirming that they are Victims with a capital V and capitalizing on their perception.

Most of the experiences of perpetual victims are viewed through the screen of victimization.  When any individual or group is viewed by these perpetual victims as having more power or influence than they do, they go into an immediate defensive mode.  For many of them the best defense is a strong offense.  They attack the individual or group perceived to have this power or influence.  They do not attack ideas or beliefs but they attack the core of the person or group involved. 

In the 21^st Century, the entity that holds the most power across the globe is America.  Through their victim screen the perpetual victims view America as the greatest threat to all their sisters and brothers in victimhood.  There is no thought involved…just defensive instinct.  Their emotional experience is one of irrational hatred…a hatred that is so strong it prevents recognition of anything that refutes the feeling.  For example, they attack President Bush for his personality rather than for his ideas.  They blame him for hurricanes and for terrorism and for their own very miserable views of themselves.  They blame America for the fact that Islamic terrorists have attacked America and killed thousands before and after September 11, 2001.  When President Bush places African American’s in influential positions while President Clinton (the first black president in the eyes of the African American left) did not, the effort by President Bush is not only minimized but condemned.  The African Americans given the opportunity by the President are also condemned as somehow defective (translation:  not victims).  Anything that America does for the good of people or for the good of the world or both is seen as bad.  This is because the action doesn’t fit the cognitive frame of the victim and therefore “cannot be accurate” in the minds of those perpetual victims.

Here is the problem.  Americans are not victims.  Everyone in this nation has a chance to join in the dance.  Even those who have truly been victimized have an opportunity to move beyond that experience.  Some choose to take it.  Some choose to listen to the purveyors of victimhood instead of moving ahead.  This is what gives the leaders of the far left their power.  Those who take the opportunity are generally far happier than those who don’t.  Those who choose to be perpetual victims are unhappy, miserable in their unhappiness, and unable to figure out a way out.  Thus, their hatred of almost everything and everybody, including America.

As long as people buy into the victimization agenda, nothing will change.  America is not the victimizer.  The only ones that are victimizing anyone today are the Islamic terrorists.  America is trying to defend itself and those very people who feel victimized by America. 

I could be wrong but I think this is the problem with America today.  It is time that we all stand up and use our anger against the right victimizers.  The nation with the most power is not always the most evil.  It is time for everyone to join in to get rid of the real victimizers.  It is time to stop listening to the people on the left that are just perpetuating the victim mentality for their own gains.  We all do better when we pull together…when we are strong together!