Now, I think we all have seen what comes from electing someone we feel we would enjoy having a beer with (and I think the Governor falls into that category), but it is just human nature to want people that we feel are “like us.” Many people make the critical error and leap to – if she is just like me, she is in a better position to represent me.

Which brings me to my answer as to why so many women really dislike Sarah Palin. She is just like us (give or take that moose hunting thing), and if she is like us, why can’t one of us be vice president? Of course, this line of thinking brings into sharp focus very quickly how absurd that thought is! This country is filled with hard working moms that struggle with all sorts of issues that Sarah Palin does, yet, these moms aren’t qualified – in my mind at least – to be vice president. She relies very heavily on this in her campaigning and doesn’t lean as heavily on her gubernatorial experiences. Although this “I am a hockey mom just like you” approach is appealing to many people, it infuriates me that she feels that because she is “one of us” it gives her license to speak for all of the “Joe Sixpacks” in this country (oy!) I certainly understand and respect the fact that she is the governor of Alaska, and does have some limited exposure to executive matters, but I would feel better about the whole thing if she focused on that, instead of winking and nudging her way along on the campaign trail.

It is my fervent hope that this country can fight the urge to elect “one of us” and instead, elect qualified people for the job. The Federal Government is a unique animal, it has a life of its own and it requires someone who understands it, and has experienced it, to make it operate the way it should.

If not, along with many of you, I am making plans for alternate living arrangement for the next few years!

Predjudiced but I love your work and love the blog.

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Hatred is an emotion of intense revulsion, distaste, enmity, or antipathy for a person or thing, generally attributed to a desire to avoid, restrict, remove, or destroy the hated object. Hate can be based on fear of an object or past or present negative consequences of dealing with the hated thing. People may feel conflicting and complicated emotions or thoughts involving hate, as in a love-hate relationship. Hate of someone or something is usually brought on by an extensive period of aggravation from the hating subject [citation needed].

Often the verb “to hate” is used casually as an exaggeration to describe things one merely dislikes, such as a particular style of architecture, a certain climate, one’s job, or some particular kind of food.

“Hatred” is also used to describe feelings of prejudice, bigotry or condemnation (see shunning) against a class of people and members of that class. Racism is the most well-known example of this. The term hate crime is used to designate crimes committed out of hatred in this sense.

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According to evolutionary psychologists, hate is a reaction to people whose interests consistently conflict with one’s own. People whose behavior threatens one’s own survival interests are to be hated, while people whose behavior enhances one’s survival prospects are to be liked or even loved (as in the case of offspring and other genetic kin).[citation needed]

The passions of hate arise from several features of our thinking process. These include a desire to strengthen our community and to alleviate our fear. The ability to quickly separate friend from foe is essential to self-defense and safety and provides the origins of hate.[1]

However, hatred in modern life is frequently unrelated to survival or self-defense. People are capable of hating others for any particular reason, people with different political and religious views, different lifestyles, and fans of opposing sports teams, to name but a few.

Also, the feelings of hate can arise unexpectedly. If one has experienced maltreatment in the past, it is proven that one is more likely to maltreat and learn to dislike or “hate” people before they get to know the person. This is shown clearly in the pattern of people who are abused, ignored, neglected, or maltreated by their parents, and those children’s tendency to become abusive or angry.

In English, the subject of hatred of a thing is generally given the name mis-<> or anti-<>, e.g.: misanthropy, misogyny, misandry, antisemitism, etc.

What someone feels when somebody hurts them emotionally. ex: Two best friends get in a fight over a boy that likes one of the girls. The “best friend” makes the other girl choose over her or her boyfriend. She now feels great hatred towards her “best friend”.

Notes
^ Emotional Competency Discussion of Hate

References
The Psychology of Hate by Robert Sternberg (Ed.)
Hatred: The Psychological Descent into Violence by Willard Gaylin
Why We Hate by Jack Levin
The Psychology of Good and Evil : Why Children, Adults, and Groups Help and Harm Others by Ervin Staub
Prisoners of Hate : The Cognitive Basis of Anger, Hostility, and Violence by Aaron T. Beck
Becoming Evil : How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing by James Waller

External links
Survivor bashing – bias-motivated hate crimes

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Well I’m a Palin kinda gal..how folksy ;o)..lol Emily. btw, the above quote is Abraham Lincoln. He was folksy at times too.

“As for the debate, HOLY COW. It’s so demoralizing to me that a strong woman like Clinton can be absolutely trashed and a cute, gun-toting, conservative can be a shining token. It was so depressing to watch her not answer questions and be cute and for that to be enough for America.”

Couldn’t have said it better.