Not really. They just love power and attention. Vaccines became a populist issue, so they're constructing policy based on that instead of facts and science.

Doing what their misguided base wants keeps them in power. And misguiding their base to pay attention to things other than economic policy makes it so they can use their power to further enrich themselves.

And even when they talk about economic policy, most people don't understand that tariffs are taxes on the American people. And if they don't get that, they definitely don't understand that a trade deficit isn't a bad thing in a post-industrial society because we sell information and services that don't rely on expensive physical resources.

And what kinds of people are fooled by that? The lesser educated. So slash budgets for schools and universities, especially those that are prominent and lean left. And slashing those budgets has already led to very significant setbacks in research of new treatments for a wide variety of ailments.

But hey, at least that money is going to... hey, what are they gonna spend all that money on now that the government is no longer paying?

Anyway, what I'm getting at is they don't hate us. They are using us as pawns. They are depraved and indifferent to our suffering so long as they get more money and power.