Is hating the hatred an effective way to conqour it?

@hippyjoe: Right you are - good advice given.
@mongeywolf: Why are you trying to be "Everyman?" Even in the book of Ecclesiastes there is a '...time to love and a time to hate..." Then why are you consumed with trying to love someone who obviously does not wish to be loved nor to return your love? Why would you continue to hate them when you can simply blot their influences out of your life by ignoring them or by physically moving yourself from their presence? You should recognize that the only power you have over others is your power to tolerate them... and conversely, their only power over you would be ??? Live your life for yourself, not for them.

@JollyRoger: Because the haters and the hatred is taking over, and I can't seem to accept this notion of everything in turn when it comes to love and hate. =( Hate is wrong. Hate had it's day, days of many. It did no one any bit of good. I feel that in light of the succession of the alt right, in places all around the world, and now in a major superpower, that anything actually sacred we might have been is now being abandoned.

the problem is that we have been conditioned to think anything contrary to MY point of view is hatred. News Flash: Contrary views are good for society! As has been observed: When everyone thinks alike - no one is thinking at all.

@mougywolf: You appear to harbor no hope! When you lose hope you lose foresight - a way to see into the future! Darkness is 'nothingness' Darkness cannot prevail because it has nothing to offer (in the case of the Alt-Right - they have nothing to offer either except to destroy that which they don't understand (more lost hope). My suggestion: Hang in there, real change will come and (although it may cause us to fight through a period of hatred) light will prevail. If you read the Bible you can see this darkness is temporary. I am not of the opinion that Armageddon is about to descend upon us, but many are! I am prepared to fight for my right to live, my duty to protect others and for my right to freedom... I do not have to "hate" those whom I fight against, but I may have to work my way around them, cut them down at times, teach them at other times even. You can't do that if you lose "hope." So: Are you a SURVIVOR? Do you have a will to live? Do you still see a future for your family? If you do, then you, me and many others can still affect a change for the better of those around us and IF we give them hope then they will join us - even some from the Alt-Right will join us because they too are looking for "hope."

AND: Hippyjoe: You are right again when you say, "Contrary views are good for society! As has been observed: When everyone thinks alike - no one is thinking at all."