We may not want to love the publicans (tax collectors) [ What's a re-publican?] but Jesus has dinner with them and he said that we are to love them.

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Mat 5:43-48 KJV ¶Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.

44. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

45. That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

46. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?

47. And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?

48. Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

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I like to think that but blessing our enemies that we are in fact leading them to a better life without the machinations of convoluted and hypocritical living. We may be blessed that we do not need to live with usury or we may be under the yoke of Fiat and wealth extraction but maybe we should look for the blessing that we need not concern ourselves with any of these and that our enemies might also experience this. Not a communism of violence or a false capitalism with fake money but a proof of work system that already exists and a giving system that always is more beneficial to the giver by proof of work than the receiver in recognition.