I hate, yeah I do, and I won't say I'm sorry ...

"Hate" is a word we've been told not to use. It's offensive. It's somehow immoral. But it's a word I have come to embrace. The whiter my hair gets, the more I understand the value and importance of the emotions and the values that word embodies.

This song was inspired by a farcebook conversation with an old high school friend who responded to one of my posts saying she couldn't believe I was the boy she knew in high school. My response is shared below.

But she's not wrong. At 62, I'm not the boy she knew at 18 and, I'm guessing, she may not be the girl today I remember at that same time. If we're lucky, we grow ... we evolove ... we mature ... beyond the immature ideas we have in high school. I know I have. I'm wondering if Sue actually has.

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Thank you.

Thank you for offering me this opportunity to address your impressions and express myself as briefly as I can … which likely won’t be that brief. ;^)

You knew a good-hearted but completely ignorant 17-year-old who knew nothing of the way the world works. That good-heartedness still lives within and shows itself in the way I treat my wife, family, neighbors, community, volunteer work, employees and customers. My heart has grown with time and maturity. But with failure, success, and experience, I have lost much of that teenager's ignorance along the way.

But you do not (and truthfully you cannot) know the man I am today as all you know of me is what you see on this platform. You have seen my satirical, critical, and sarcastic posts meant to draw attention to issues I find important. But perhaps you’ve missed some of the posts of a proud father or the encouraging comments made to friends who have achieved or persevered. Perhaps you’ve missed the donations made in support of good works. You have not seen balance.

I have learned that with maturity one often awakens to some of the realities of life - and both the good and evil at work in it. As one comes to love God and Goodness, righteous anger and a healthy hatred of evil are part of the bargain.

This “administration” and the “party” it represents - perhaps like few others - exemplifies what is so completely wrong about American “politics” today (not that the other “party” doesn’t also share many of the same failings and ill-intentions): It is dominated by incompetence and corruption, motivated by a hatred of the American People and our Constitution, and it exudes a lust for bigger and more authoritarian government with a capacity to act lawlessly to move our society toward their communist goals.

I am neither a D nor an R (much to Jimbo’s disbelief) and I see both good and evil on both sides of our fake political aisle. Our parties (or our uniparty) and their actors and their political drama are meant to distract us from their goals and their actions. And they are effective at moving the Overton Window while we sleep.

I also recognize the inherent desire for goodness in the American heart and I know that we have much more in common than the politicians, the corporations, and the media want us to know as they push every possible point of divide between us.

The man that I have become is so much more awake and aware than the boy you knew. Once seen, good and evil cannot be unseen. Perhaps that is why so many are drawn to a wide variety of programming that allows them to remain in the dream state that Carlin so eloquently and profanely described.

While I could go on for page after page with story and example, let me stop here and agree with you ... at least in part. My love of goodness and peace and individual liberty and our Constitution … along with my righteous anger and justified hatred of evil and Communism and Globalism … are some of the motivating forces in my life.

So, yes. I am angry and hateful … but so too am I loving and compassionate and caring. It should not surprise you to learn that I could be both at the same time. I suspect that many of us, if we took the time and honestly looked into the mirror of our own soul, would feel much the same. Again, thank you.