We cannot give up

Hate groups cannot be tolerated.

Hate is not some slow moving miasma, some heavenly sent green fog that creeps across the land swallowing up first born sons, or infecting people with a dread plague. Although it can be that -- an insidious perception that something is out to get me and I don't know what, so I keep adding culprits to my list. First the Jews, then the . . .

Hate is a wild animal trapped in a corner madly slashing out with teeth and claws at anything that comes near. Irrational to the nth degree, but not unintelligent. It can plot and plan with such focused intent that it becomes the most dangerous thing on the planet, because it has no morals, no loyalty, except to itself, no boundaries at all. It is a mob mentality where every member of the mob is an unknown threat to society.

Tolerating hate  is like thinking you can contain a drop of black ink in a glass of clear water.  It may not be imminently visible, but it is there contaminating everything else. Often the realm of young men whose hormones are raging so loud they cannot hear anything but the beat of war drums, the rail of the pipes calling them to arms, it is a tricky thing to deal with.

Education. Calm, rational, explanations that the mass of people can understand is a beginning. Getting the old guard to stop inflaming the mobs is another beginning. Calling on people who profess to love their neighbors as themselves to think about what they are doing might help. Who knows what else, but we cannot give up as long as hate exists.