(07-01-2018, 12:28 AM)Last42min Wrote: You can go back to the founders and find "hate" for opposition groups. Politicians were skilled rhetoricians and the papers were often literally owned by the politicians. Jefferson and Madison even started a paper to slander Hamilton. Well, slander might be too strong a word... but definitely to attack him and his positions. There has been no shortage of "hate" towards political opponents since the founding of this nation. The better question is when did people become so unreasonable. I think that is a much newer phenomenon. People in the past tended to really safeguard their public image. Today, it's acceptable to behave irrationally.