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    A Nation of Haters and Victims: Or a Nation of Thinkers, Hopers, and Doers
    A Nation of Haters and Victims: Or a Nation of Thinkers, Hopers, and Doers
    A Nation of Haters and Victims: Or a Nation of Thinkers, Hopers, and Doers
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    A Nation of Haters and Victims: Or a Nation of Thinkers, Hopers, and Doers

    By Ruth E. Todd

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    The truth does not just set us free; it will keep us free. In A Nation of Haters and Victims, author Ruth E. Todd demonstrates the importance of seeking the truth about issues, events, and policies affecting the country.

    A Nation of Haters and Victims details how the United States is becoming a nation of haters and victims. Haters and victims have permeated our society and created a national malaise that makes us unable to think clearly. Because we have stopped thinking for ourselvesrelying on the media and other sources to tell us what to thinkour national character has been changed.

    But, Todd, a longtime observer of people, politics, and current events, shows that it is not too late to take the country back from the haters and victims. A Nation of Haters and Victims provides solid steps for reversing the trend of victimhood and hate in order to become a nation of thinkers, hopers, and doers. Readers of the book have said that I am challenging modern media and that I am brave to do so. I want people to think for themselves and research the truth and facts and not listen to the half-truths or what someone wants us to believe. It is time we remember who we are and what made us the country of choice for so many immigrants.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateFeb 26, 2010
    ISBN9781450206143
    A Nation of Haters and Victims: Or a Nation of Thinkers, Hopers, and Doers
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    Ruth E. Todd

    Ruth E. Todd was born and raised in Chicago. She earned master’s degrees in history and global management and is currently working on her doctorate. Todd is lead faculty at the University of Phoenix. Married, she currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia, and has three children and four grandchildren.

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      A Nation of Haters and Victims - Ruth E. Todd

      The Beginning

      The United States is a unique country. It was founded by those who wanted to escape state-sponsored religions and political oppression. It was born of the philosophies of Rousseau, Locke, Paine, and Hume. It also arose from thinking, discourse, and dissent—always with an eye to what could be built and not just what could be torn down. This seemed to work for many years, but recently there has been a blight affecting many in this country. In the last two decades there has seemed to be a rush to judgment. Duke Lacrosse players, a congressman from California, a basketball player—all could be guilty of something, but before investigations are complete and the facts known, haters and victims foment misinformation and hate. Now is the time to take stock of who we are and who we want to be, and to make sure that we are more akin to the thinkers than the haters.

      We seem to be at a crossroads. Which way will we go? Will we move toward the future or mire ourselves in conspiracies and distrust? Haters and victims are ready to continue their dark arts, but thinkers, hopers, and doers can still win the war. The whole world is waiting for the answer, as what we do here affects them as well.

      Adolf Hitler wrote, How fortunate for governments that people they administer do not think. It is not just the government that is fortunate; it is also all of the haters and victims who continuously preach the gospel of hatred and victimhood. The United States has been infected by a disease that taints all that we do. Haters and victims have permeated our society and created a national malaise that makes us unable to think clearly.

      It is time for us to think for ourselves. Sound bites and filtered information that appeal to our emotions have gone on long enough. We need to do our own research to discover the truth of things. This nation was built by men and women who had vision, forethought, wisdom, and dreams. While we cannot point to every event in our history with pride, as a nation we have made great strides in creating an environment for growth and equality. We are an experiment that succeeded, and while not perfect, it is the envy of many. In the press, you hear about those who preach about taking the country back. If you want to do this, take it back from the haters and victims. Think! Because we stopped thinking for ourselves and allowed others to tell us what to think, our national character has been altered—but it is not too late. If we want to be cured, we must acknowledge the problem. Failure to think and reason caused the extermination of Native Americans, discrimination in employment for immigrants, Jim Crow laws, and black codes (laws that limited the civil rights of African Americans). But we are not so far removed from these events that we cannot learn from our mistakes and move forward.

      The United States is undoubtedly the nation most other countries love to hate, but many people around the world ignore this tendency and choose to love us anyway. We have for centuries offered hope to people who have been oppressed and downtrodden. Colonists came here seeking a better life and wanting freedom from the state-sponsored religions of Europe. The United States is a country whose people built a government, economy, and lifestyle that have become the envy of the world. This is all to our credit, but there is a disease affecting us. It is not AIDS; it is not H1N1; it is not cancer. This sickness is uglier than those, and for the nation it is much more damaging. We have allowed haters and victims to alter how we think of our country, ourselves, and our neighbors.

      Fearmongering and hatemongering have become full-time jobs for many in this country. Not only are people profiting from this business; they are causing irreparable harm to this nation. I am not speaking of comedians who take the darker things and poke at them so we find humor in our folly, but the haters who keep telling us how bad things are and who is to blame, as well as those who think they are victims.

      There are haters and there are victims, and there are those haters who become victims and so-called victims who become haters. This dark circle is somehow convinced that they do not control their own destinies and that other people get special treatment. They assume that what they hear on talk radio is what the truth is. They also assume that things they read on Internet sites are true without verifying who the owner/sponsor of the Web site is.

      These people say they want our president to fail while they wave the flag and call themselves Americans. They call black people racists while insisting that they are not themselves racists and maintain that there is a level playing field for minorities. They also stretch the truth or speak half-truths, and when they are called to account for the words they have uttered, they hide under the cover of First Amendment rights, which they think only apply to them, not to those who don’t reek of malicious intent.

      Besides the fact that there is a great deal of money to be made by being vicious and reducing our nation to the level of the debauched and decayed Roman Empire—with

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