Politicians Using Hate to Excite Their Followers

 

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By Steven Maikoski, Author: “The Real Constitution and its Real Enemies”
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12-28-2025

Politicians have always depended on anger and hate to motivate and team their people.

Yesterday I spoke with a friend whom I had not spoken with in a couple of years. We were having a good time until I explained that I had gone to the Turning Point convention, AmericaFest, over the last weekend. It was then that I learned that this person had turned into a never-Trumper, a carrier of TDS, who went on to say that Trump was a pedophile, had organized an insurrection, and that Charlie Kirk was evil.

I’ve heard a lot of people claim they didn’t like Charlie Kirk, but I have never heard anybody call him evil. 

I was totally surprised by this, yet I let the TDS voice keep ranting and venting all its emotions, when an old memory popped up about something that happened to me over fifty years ago. 

When I was stationed in Germany in the early 1970s, I worked every day to learn the German language. Two or three times a week I would go to the local cafe, a Konditorei that had some of the best pastries and cakes imaginable. You could gain weight by just looking in the display case. I worked an agreement with two war widows, nice ladies, who taught me pronunciation and conjugation for the reasonable price of a cognac and coffee for each of them.

Their instruction helped me. I was somewhat fluent in their language after a year’s worth of Asbach Uralt cognac (We jokingly called it “Ass-kick, you’re Out!).

At that time, I lived in a little village, which Germans called a Dorf. Occasionally, I would go to a local Gasthaus (restaurant) to have a Bier and a meal and talk with some of the local folk. Every evening, there were two old men, obviously farmers, sitting at a corner table enjoying their Bier of the night. One had that funny mustache that was only as wide as his nose, in an obvious salute to old Adolph.

After living in that village for three years, my skydiving all over Europe had made me sort of a celebrity in the town; of course, speaking German helped more. 

One night, I asked the two men if I could buy them a beer and talk about Germany. They looked at each other and nodded yes. They knew what I meant.

In our conversation, I learned that both men were World War II veterans, and they believed the reason they lost that war was that Hitler invaded Russia, and he should not have attacked England. To them, Hitler was a smart man who brought pride back to a nation that needed it. He also got rid of the Jews. One of the men angrily blamed the Jews for everything.

Think about this for a minute: The war in Europe resulted in millions of innocent lives lost, incalculable damage was inflicted on three continents and several oceans, and the hatred still festered in the minds of some. Hatred is that powerful.

Getting back to politics here in the good, old, USA, we all recognize that once Trump started running for office, the swamp’s powers focused on him. Invidious comments and reports winged everywhere, alluding, but never proving, that Trump was a racist, pedophile, dishonest businessman, bad husband, and just a terrible person. Official government actions were directed against him, most of them illegal. While all this was going on, the media entered the party, repeating all the rumors in a media swill that continues to this day.

We now know why such energies were focused on Trump: the corruption led by the democrats is monumental; they are possibly the most significant abuses of power in human history. So, to get him out of their pocketbook, they must destroy the man in the minds of the unthinking Americans. Truth hardly works for that, so they must lie about him.

George Washington wrote about this process in his Farewell Address; he called it Party Spirit. 

 It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasional riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.

In their followers’ eyes, the corruption is forgotten, ignored, or justified. It’s a new low for our citizens.

Since this happened with an old friend, I’m working on a one-page essay for such haters. If you have any points or suggestions, I would like to hear them.

Steve