You know what Republicans really, really hate?

[Scuba]

Immigrants
Unions
ACLU
Muslims
Gays
Liberals
Medicare
Harry Reid
NOAA
Professors
Thinking people
Public & Indian Housing
Canadians
Sewer systems
Journalists
Jesus' teachings
Europe
Whistleblowers
Social Security
Progress
Scientists
President Obama
Peace Corps
Lesbians
Social justice
Mosques
Laws
Media
Truth
Creative people
14 year old rapist victims
Housing & Urban Development Dept
Government healthcare
Illegal aliens
United Nations
Diplomacy
Smart people
NEA
Bureaucrats
Postal Service
Empathy
Government
1st Amendment
Any Arabic person
Economic justice
Consumer protections
Artists
Democrats
Social programs
All democratic leaders
14 year old incest victims
Sanity
Public education
14th Amendment
Actors
Wildlife
Federal government
Food stamps
Worker's rights
Change
Student aid programs
Environment
Hate crime laws
The Poor
Department of Education
The vulnerable
Nancy Pelosi
Environmental Protection Agency
Logic
The weak
State government
Unemployed
Food banks
4th Amendment
Progressives
Thinking
Tree huggers
Abortion
Hollywood
Teachers
Census workers
Federal Trade Commission
Endangered species
Reason
Homeless people
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Women's rights
City government
Food & Drug Administration
Intelligence
Environmentalists
Any liberal leader
Movies
College professors
5th Amendment
Regulations
Blacks
Soccer
Compassion
Facts


There's more, but you get the idea.

[dissentient]

1. Yep, Fox News and other pervasive right wing media has brainwashed a whole generation of Repubs.

They are like brainwashed cultists who swallow whatever the right wing tells them, whole.

[kelliekat44]

112. Helping this go viral on YouTube and FB. nt

[GoneFishin]

2. And democracy. I don't think that is there already. ?

[tridim]

3. Republicans hate everything that is good. nt

[abakan]

45. They don't hate things for them.

They hate them for us.

[LeftishBrit]

4. Practically everyone and everything in other words

They would agree with the Mikado that 'It really doesn't matter whom you put upon the list/ They'd none of them be missed. They'd none of them be missed!'

Except perhaps for billionaire donors, and right-wing televangelists.

[ananda]

5. Themselves...

... projected onto all the "others" ...

[NRaleighLiberal]

17. + infinity

[mopinko]

40. +++ the infinity

[calimary]

58. ++++ and beyond!

Facts and Truth. That's what they hate. They want to live in some CONservative Fairy Land. They want to avoid Facts and Truth because neither of those things fits in with their fabricated Fairy Land worldview. They don't like uncomfortable or - Heaven forbid - Inconvenient Truths. That means something their darling dubya used to speak of with some level of incredulity. Anybody remember his "it's Hard Werk" quips. Like maybe he'd never faced any genuinely hard work before. Which I think is probably to be found under the Facts or Truth headings.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

108. the reality based community

They don't like that.

[The Roux Comes First]

106. Projection is Certainly One of Their Key Character-Traits

That original list is already too long to scrutinize in detail.

But I would add Big Words (maybe like "scrutinize&quot and reading of books.

Both major no-no's for the rush loofah crowd.

[Fumesucker]

6. Much easier to list what they ~don't~ hate

[FoxNewsSucks]

8. True,

Here's that complete list:
1 Their own money
2 Power
3 Control
4 Taking from others.

[Dirty Socialist]

19. One More

5. Guns

[nxylas]

44. 6. Supply-Side Jesus

(With apologies to Al Franken).

[Pakid]

92. The Koch's

and all the other greedy SOB like them

[samsingh]

7. i think they also hate themselves

[Adam051188]

18. this one is interesting

A characteristic of the "right wing" mind is the inability to perform honest instropective thought. Maybe we've found a sort of "Achilles heel" here....

[COLGATE4]

9. The truth? nt

[rock]

10. "You just don't get it Scott."

(From Dr. Evil)

[beerandjesus]

11. In sum:

AMERICA.

[SoapBox]

12. Gee...and that's only a partial list?

Billboards and bumper stickers!

[trusty elf]

13. Repub State Senator Tom Corbin sez:

“Well, you know God created man first, then he took the rib out of man to make woman. And you know, a rib is a lesser cut of meat.”

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[zentrum]

22. Very Funny, but

……inaccurate. Where are the dinosaurs?

[erronis]

24. And what is that pussy cat doing next to Adam?

I've been trying to wean myself off of DU but I keep having to come back for the great company.

[mountain grammy]

43. There to cover up Adam's sexy thigh.

[dhol82]

85. It's not just the thigh

There are some naughty bits that are being blocked also.

[napkinz]

94. Archie Bunker ...

Archie: In the Bible it says, "God made men in his own image." He made women after, from a rib. A cheaper cut.

[countryjake]

97. "What's the point of a man working hard all his life...

tryin' to get someplace, if all he's gonna do is wind up equal?"

"Equality is unfair!"

Funny, I keep hearing that same sort of thinking, echoed more and more now, everyday. Lear's presentation of the consummate bigot and why those were NOT the days needs to be reproduced, somehow, in the media of today.

Nobody ever wanted to be equated with being an "Archie" back then, once that sitcom reached mega-status in the ratings.

[wiggs]

14. Great partial list. Add San Francisco, France, Chicago, Hollywood. nt

[Rose Siding]

117. All of Europe, really

[Fozzledick]

15. Honest elections.

They know they can't win them.

[KeepItReal]

99. ^^^ THIS ^^^

eom

[Lex]

16. They are *AFRAID* of everything and everyone who is not just like them.

Fear drives their politics. And fear is the product of ignorance.

[joanbarnes]

20. Harry Potter.....

[Alkene]

91. Especially Professor Dumbledore, but within the fantasy genre...

presumably not Sauron?

[Botany]

21. Nice list but you forgot the #1 thing

The right for people to vote and have that vote counted.

But your list shows the reason why the republicans have to suppress the vote
because they are so nasty to so many people.



A long time ago this guy, Gov. Ray Shafer of PA, was our next door neighbor's brother
in a very middle class neighborhod and he was a Republican and really good guy too.
He would have no home in the GOP today.

[maddiemom]

49. Ray Shafer gave my college commencment address.

I too remember when there used to be some very decent Republicans. They were pretty much like moderate Democrats today.

[Botany]

60. It was a different time but Ray used to be a party of the neighborhood and nobody ...

.... would think of bothering him and used to play w/us kids and when an staffer would
try to get him to go he would say, "can't you see I'm in a meeting? He was for civil rights,
unions, education, infrastructure, and the environment.

The "decent republicans" are long gone. It used to be they worked for the good of the
people ..... even nasty ass Jim Rhodes of OH back in the day said he wanted a college or
tech school w/in 50 miles of everybody in the state.

[Exhibit A]

53. I was just going to say, "voters." n/t

[erronis]

23. OK, I'll jump in here - dark chocolate

I think they like fake chocolate like Snickers, Mars Bars, etc.

Going off the rails a bit here -

I wonder if they aren't just suffering from a ketchup deficit?
Or perhaps they need a fecal implant with some "good" biome?

[bigwillq]

25. They are a party filled with hate.

Good list.

[BlueCaliDem]

26. An enthusiastic KICK and REC!

But to summarize...Republicans hate EVERYTHING and EVERYONE. They're just innate treasonous haters.

[guillaumeb]

27. Canadians too?

Even Stephen Harper?

Do they hate real maple syrup?

Do they hate Raffi?

Do they hate that Canada has the better side of the Falls?

How about French speaking Quebeckers?

[Skrups]

28. They just hate people.

[VanillaRhapsody]

29. You know what they really really really hate?

President Hillary Rodham Clinton!

[Scuba]

36. You're right. She'll never get a single vote from anyone who ever considered themself Republican.

Meanwhile ...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/16/elizabeth-warren-conservatives-_n_6334528.html?1418764894

Conservatives Grudgingly Praise Warren, Pelosi For Opposing 'Wall Street Giveaway'

Some conservatives have acknowledged that they have ideologically more in common than they would like to admit with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) after the progressive senator led the charge against a provision in the $1.1 trillion government funding bill that weakens regulations on financial institutions.

...

"The end times are upon us," Dustin Siggins wrote at Hot Air. "I find myself in agreement with not just Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), but House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)."

...

Some bloggers even said they could envision themselves voting for Warren were she to run for president in 2016 -- a possibility she has repeatedly denied.

"I hope that Sen. Warren will run for president in 2016 to force a national conversation on the Washington-Wall Street power nexus," The American Conservative's Rod Dreher wrote. "Hillary Clinton won’t talk about it. You know that no Republican presidential candidate will talk about it (with the possible -- possible -- exception of Rand Paul). We all need to be talking about it. A populist who talks like Elizabeth Warren and really means it is a Democrat a conservative like me would consider voting for, despite her social liberalism."

[VanillaRhapsody]

47. and THAT's not true either...

I know of one Republican woman who WILL cross over to vote for her....and there will likely be more women...

White men....nah never happen...

But President Hillary Rodham Clinton will make THEIR heads implode!

[merrily]

30. They hate whatever they're told to hate.

[unblock]

31. in short, they hate anything that's not money and power.

and they especially hate anything that stands between them and more money and power.

[appalachiablue]

55. That's it in essence, they're only into power, money & themSELVES. A relative in her 20s once

asked her mother why the family was Republican and voted that way for generations. The mother answered, "because we're rich". No bones about it. The daughter, son and the grandchildren of the woman became lifetime Dem. voters and liberals.

[unblock]

62. yep. and they convince the rank-and-file that they're all just temporarily embarassed millionaires.

[classof56]

32. Thom Hartmann is reading this list on his program right now.

With proper attribution to you, Scuba. Nice job!

[bullwinkle428]

33. K&R for Thom Hartmann's big love!

[GusBob]

38. yep I heard that too!!!

actually I think this post was his inspiration for his opening monologue

Great Job Scuba!!!!!

ETA this is the second time in recent memory that Scuba has been read on his program

[rhett o rick]

73. Being acknowledged by Thom Hartmann has to be right up there. Bravo to Scuba but

don't tell him I said so. Don't want him to get a big head and slack off.

[classof56]

77. Promise not to disclose your secret to Scuba!

Hi back.

Oh, and BTW, I'm reading Thom's novel Death in the Pines. Recommended!

[rhett o rick]

79. I have a number of Thom's books on the shelf but never heard of that one.

I have "Legacy of Secrecy" but haven't read it, looks like a huge task. My favorite is "What Would Jefferson Do."

[KamaAina]

34. Canadians?

They love them some Stephen Harper! And, of course, Ted Cruz.

[ALBliberal]

35. Birth control

And they are going after divorce in Kansas.

[Kablooie]

37. Ah yes, but the real question is … what do they LIKE?

[hifiguy]

74. Money, power, their crazy skydaddy

and exercising their sadistic impulses.

[zeemike]

39. That list is too long to be read.

I prefer to look at what they love....which is a shorter list.
Fear
Conflict
Bullying
War
money and power.

There could be more but these are the main ones.

[GoneFishin]

41. Scuba, Thom Hartman read this list from your post on the air.

[tom.trog69]

42. Union retiree, and I've heard a lot of fellow progressives/Dems bash unions

They use the exact same corporate-friendly talking points, like how unions are all corrupt, which is almost impossible for most unions due to public reporting rules, and open elections. Or how we get layoffs while they work 50 hour weeks, when if they were union, we'd all get more work and better pay, not to mention pensions, health insurance, and much better work conditions.

I will say that the actions of a few, like the NYC janitors, or the occasional union secretary running off with group funds, do make us look bad. All I can say is that my experience was nothing like those entities. We worked hard, and gave eight for eight every day. Our hall cut out the driftwood and do-nothings almost two decades ago, and we compete favorably with non-unions while also putting up quality work. I took great pride in my work, and the work of most all of my co-workers.

[Scuba]

54. Sad, isn't it?

[lastlib]

46. Oh. and Science

And public schools.
And equality

[cstanleytech]

48. You forgot "Fire" but then again I suppose it could be included under "Progress".

[appalachiablue]

50. It's super to see THOM HARTMANN going down your list now. He's also enumerating historic

policies and legislation that have advanced the country and they are predominantly progressive, not conservative. In it's origin and essence the US is progressive. It's undeniable.
(Cons also hate PEACE of course and promote FEAR, to maintain power and create conflict which adds to the $ coffers). [iSic simper tyrannis] .
More Americans need to follow DU and Thom Hartmann's teachings daily on FSTV (Free Speech TV), Radio and online; the country and people would be much better off.

[drm604]

51. Don't use terms like "Tree huggers".

That's their derogatory term for environmentalists. Using it legitimizes their framing. The proper word is "environmentalists" (which I see you also included in the list).

[LiberalArkie]

52. But what sends them into a rage is to say "Jimmy Carter was the greatest Pres of my life"

[VWolf]

56. Soccer? Really?

Nah, Kissinger was a big fan. I actually met him at a Cosmos match at Giants Stadium back in the 70's. Shook his hand. Was too young to understand what a dick he was.

[Enthusiast]

57. Kicked and recommended a whole bunch!

[sdfernando]

59. An easier list would be what they love

$$$ & Power

Everything else they hate.

[Arugula Latte]

61. Women

Yes, women's rights, but also just women. Even Republican women hate women.

[bravenak]

63. I am on that list many times.

[Still In Wisconsin]

64. You forgot the arts...

as in, any funding for them.

(My daughter wants to be a ballet dancer and is good enough to have a shot, so we think of this one quite a lot)

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

65. I'm sorry, but Blacks should be at the top of this list

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

66. But, they love flags. Lotsa flags.

[KT2000]

67. Humor

they don't get it.

[bbigrob]

68. The elephant in the room.

Real Christianity and its true principles. Pretend morality is their calling card. That leaves us with the tenet that His greatest trick is to make believe that he doesn't exist. His minions are among us.

[malthaussen]

69. America. n/t

[SalviaBlue]

70. Thom Hartmann is reading your post on the air!!

[Dont call me Shirley]

71. Congrats, Scuba, you made it to Thom Hartmann!

Rs hate: Peace

[blkmusclmachine]

72. The Flat Earth Society = The Republican Party

[annabanana]

75. ... and Mailmen!

you forgot mailmen

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

76. America.

The real America. They hate it with a vengeance.

And the fact that they have managed to make loads of people believe that it's the left that hates America, while the RW does everything in its power to destroy so much of what is America, just shows what a superior marketing department the Right has.

[cascadiance]

84. That's a nice summary of them...

The only thing they don't hate are RICH Americans (or UnAmericans the way I'd define them)...

[Kalidurga]

78. oh yeah there is a lot more

wounded veterans
9/11 first responders
poor people
cats
rap music
education that includes:
liberal arts
music
p.e.
art
drama
probably more
being called racist as they
spout racist beliefs
gay marriage
-out gay people
transgenders
oh heck anyone
that isn't a
straight white
republican male
Sandy Hook victims
New Orleans victims
children fleeing bullets,
mayhem, and starvation
atheists
ObamaCare
people working minimum wage
or just above
disabled people
people with college degrees
hippies
that guy/gal that is standing in front
of them at the checkout

[Cha]

80. LOL... excuse me, but I think the President is at the top of that list. thank you, Scuba

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

98. True that. My Uncle, who has become a babbling RW FoxNoise devotee keeps posting on facebook

about how he hates Obama. Occasionally he even says why, but of course it's almost always RW lies.

My grandparents, his parents, were both from Virginia/Southern Maryland and grew up with a superiority complex, having been taught that blacks (a word they never had a need for, by the way) were less than human.

My mom is the only one of the 4 siblings in that family not to now be a RW nut--she's a relatively liberal Democrat, thank goodness. The America my uncle describes is some crazy fantasy world where Obama has "taken all of our freedoms." I wonder how these people leave the house believing what they do.

[hopemountain]

81. educated and/or empowered

women.

[AngryDem001]

88. This times a million

I really don't think that repukes hate women so much as they FEAR them. The pukes are SCARED of women and they are esp. scared of women in POWER.

[hopemountain]

118. yes, it seems to be the same 'ol, same 'ol

demonization of women to deny them any power, whatsoever.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

82. I figured out there is only ONE thing "conservatives" actually want to conserve....

Old Civil War battlefields.

ESPECIALLY the site of "Pickett's March" where they feel they earned SOMETHING.

[ErikJ]

83. 17th Amendment too.

They want to repeal the 17th A. which gives the direct election of Senators to the people. And unions which are democracy in the workplace.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2014/02/conservatives_17th_amendment_repeal_effort_why_their_plan_will_backfire.html

[LynneSin]

86. I don't think DU has enough server power to generate the list of everything the right hates

And it's all about the hate with them

[cheapdate]

87. Bravo!

[lpbk2713]

89. Brocolli

[awoke_in_2003]

90. I would suggest posting what they like...

but, then, that would be a very short list.

[obxhead]

93. Republicans don't really hate anything.

They simply love money. Anything that stands in the way of that one thing is something to be attacked.

The sad part is many, far too many, Democrats think the exact same way.

Now, Republican VOTERS hate many of the things you listed, but the actual Republican politicians could give a shit one way or another. Their end goal is MONEY. Their hate speech is just that, speech. If they could champion universal health care, a cut of 90% to the military, a minimum wage of $25/hr, and truly equal rights across the board and make $$$$ while doing so...... Fuck, the next election would be the most liberal ever.

MONEY. Regardless of party, with very rare exceptions. It drives all of it.

[madokie]

95. I'm sure there's some you've missed

The most hateful people I know are republic 'CONs and the super religious.

[meow2u3]

96. To sum up: the entire idea of the United States of America nt

[rpannier]

100. They seem to hate lots of things with a 4 in it from your list

In keeping with that thought,
they hate the 4th Amendment
they probably also hate the 4th Commandment because you're really not supposed to spend any money or work on the Sabbath

[TexasTowelie]

101. Mr. Conservative from Lubbock

wants you to add low flush toilets and low flow showerheads.

[Old and In the Way]

102. hate defines them.

They are the anti-party. They exist to accommodate personal prejudices. Thzt is all.

[Depaysement]

103. The best part of this long list is what's missing nt

[tilsammans]

104. Great job!

Enjoyed listening to Thom Hartmann reading this today on his show.

[Cobalt Violet]

105. yoga pants

And yeah there are no doubt a lot more.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

107. rec #200 :) n/t

[47of74]

109. When they get called on their bullshit.

They really hate that. More than some of the other things.

[LVdem]

110. You forgot "kittens"

Great list, by the way.

[pansypoo53219]

111. you forgot history.

[peace13]

113. Education and educated people!

Haters gotta hate!

[Vinca]

114. The list of what they love is a whole lot shorter: $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

[nxylas]

115. You know who else the Party of Lincoln hates?

Lincoln.

[B Calm]

116. You forgot Freedom.

[Chimeradog]

119. great list

add in:

school children

science and facts of any kind

College, any higher education of the populous

Vegetarians

working people

Unions that help people

psychologists that help people

Social workers that help people

The Post Office and all its hard workers

Disabled people

people who enjoy the arts, music etc

Any people who read books to gain knowledge, instead of brainwashed by Fox "newz"

All of humanity apparently, that isn't the 1/10th of the 1%

Could almost take their list out of a Nazi playbook....

[DonJohnson]

120. Virtually anything fun and/or productive, come to think of it

Sexual Freedom (the consensual kind, at least), social justice, critical thinking, marijuana, the environment, 1st Amendment rights, all the good stuff that makes me grateful to be an American citizen. Oh, and... Don Johnson, the man with the suit himself.