Local terror

In reading An Interrupted Life, the diaries of Etty Hillesum, a Jewish woman from Amsterdam who died in the Holocaust, this line stuck out for me:

"...That doesn't mean you have to be half-hearted; on the contrary, you must make a stand, wax indignant at times, try to get to the bottom of things. But indiscriminate hatred is the worst thing there is. It is a sickness of the soul..."

She then proceeds to describe her views of seeing a nation as an undifferentiated mob rather than individual people. I wonder if this man had seen photos of each individual he wished to harm in this terribly scary attempt at "revolution", if he would have stopped thinking of "us" as an undifferentiated mob of nameless faceless "left-wing conspirators" trying to take over the government.

The nation's polarization is scaring me.