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The Long Term Dangers of Not Understanding Hate Groups at the State Level

Our minds need to change about hate in Michigan. While we know that hate is championed by dark personality traits we don't have a full grasp of its prevalence and its impact.  Political rhetoric pushed hate into minority/majority and right/left dynamics that legitimizes poor behavior. It is up to our national leaders to pull us toward the center and let evidence based decision making take precedence.

Hate isn't specific to any race or religion and is worrisome form of aggression based on psychological distortions of fear and dominance. Our future rests on people working together to set free the powerful cultural and diverse talent that will help us overcome our national challenges.

Michigan has seen hate groups come into center focus during the elections and our capital has seen its doors bashed in by extremism. Radicalism from any political leaning should not have their place in our modern storyline. 

As a state, we can choose to embrace hate and the power struggle it causes or we can accept our national purpose and move toward a freer and more enlightened society. Complicity will make it increasingly difficult to fully utilize our human capital and moral aptitude to influence the world around us.

No matter what our religion or race, we have the right to natural law that ensures we can seek to live and pursue our happiness regardless of political rhetoric. It is the same rights we had 40,000 years ago when we foraged for food and these are the same rights we have today when we have our food delivered by Amazon.

People have the right to work in their own best interest and that of the society in which we live.

Whether we practice freedoms is a social affair but we know that our most basic laws and ethics have risen to ensure people have the right to "Be".  Failure to respect life ends in societal displacement and radical change (i.e. Quakers come to American to avoid religious persecution and Americans overthrew the British for the right of representation).

Laws have purpose and if they become purposeless or ineffective they must be adjusted or removed. We don't know the extent of the crimes being committed because we have no real measurements. Allowing for more inclusive hate legislation (counseling, misdemeanor and/or felony) helps us understand, track and solve hate based behaviors before it becomes a bigger problem. 

What I can say about hate and racism is that it has almost nothing to do with the targets. Its about how the perpetrators feel about themselves and their false sense of superiority over others. Targeting others is not rational and a dark and misguided aggression that doesn't end without intervention. Whether one looks at it from a science or moral vantage points it is the one place where law and virtue can become one!

It is up to our leaders to decide if they prefer to let go of their ideological differences long enough to create a free nation running at full economic, intellectual and skill capacity that leads to innovative mastery of the capitalization of a digital environment. 



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