A question: How old is “The Hater”? It might mean something. It’s not too much of a stretch to say that the post-menopausal face lift crowd (think Hilary, Boxer, Feinstein, Pelosi) are threatened by a young, sexually attractive woman. She gets all the attention, just by smiling and walking up to the microphone. Fury ensues. It is inconceivable (because it is so painful) that she is also smart, sensitive, competent, and of good will, just as they imagine themselves to have been when they were her age. Sarah’s still “in the game” they are not. Could it be partly late middle age “raging hormones”, or rather, late middle aged “lack of hormones” leading to rage?
A lot of supposedly political discussion is a thinly disguised vehicle for the expression of personal anger and hatred, displaced onto “the issues”. It’s sort of like road rage in a more social setting. There’s always a lot of free-floating personal anger and hatred floating around and political themes can focus and channel this.
