I don't think democrats hate the rich, they hate rampant inequality, stagnant wages when most income goes to the top/when productivity is high, when the rich have failed to provide for the poor..
It is not the job of the rich to provide for the poor. It is the job of the poor to better their own lives via hard work and HELP if people choose to offer it.
And you are correct, the rich are not hated by the left. They are envied to absurd levels
No they teach their base to hate the rich, they paint the rich as evil criminals. Consider the rhetoric, the rich don't pay their fair share. That suggests they are doing something illegal, somehow cheating on paying their fair share of taxes. A whopper lie when you consider the 1% now pay 50% of the ******* taxes. The rich are taking advantage of workers by underpaying them. Again the rich are doing something underhanded. Its not that they were just lucky and got rich, they got rich on the backs of the workers. The workers are not getting their fair share and on and on.
When you foment hate, envy, and division it may come back to bite you on the ass.
Well, quite a few capitalists are criminals... By any means. One can't forget that fuckers can steal billions, get away with it, and a homeless man gets 15 years for stealing $100 and apologizing. None the less, the rich really don't pay their fair share based on the corporate welfare, the tax cuts always being pushed for them, the evasion.. And consider how much of the wealth they actually own.. We once had massive taxes on the rich and we did just fine, much better then now, and the "job creators" weren't shutting down everything. The rich are underpaying workers, that's a fact, next. Yeah. I'm sure the majority of rich people in America these days got rich doing construction or actual labor that matters.