Susan
2009-06-17 13:29:37
This was a good and well-articulated piece, but the underlying premise–that Sarah Palin must have acted in a certain way, or projected a certain persona, or lived a certain lifestyle, to deserve all this hatred–is backwards, in my opinion.
The key to understanding hatred lies with the hater, not the person hated. We’ll never come one step closer to understanding “why they hate Sarah Palin” if we focus principally on Sarah Palin. It’s at bottom like anti-semitism, I think. You have to understand Hitler–the Jew is just a scapegoat.
One is free after all not to support Palin. But the sheer volume and viciousness of the hatred that sprung up around her is something that she could not possibly be responsible for.
