Why Do We Hate Mormons?

There is a lot of animosity among society-at-large towards Mormons. Often they are simply viewed as a foolish and gullible bunch, but there is often a disgust.

I wonder if it isn't jealousy? Having demonstrating that Mormons are smarter, wealthier, have larger families, and do less crime - it might not be surprising that many people would be jealous.

So why don't they join? (Why am I not a Mormon?) - the most common automatic dismissal is that Joseph Smith is an obvious fraud - a liar and a conman (hence the view of Mormons as gullible). The other aspect, and one I see a lot of complaint about on ex-Mormon forums, is that the Mormon life is very demanding. There are a lot of commitments to church and family that one is expected to fulfill. (That is, it's hard! and of course jealously often is related to seeing someone having-it-better and wanting that, but also not wanting to put in the hard work.)

Also, people don't like the Mormons because they're really annoying - always trying to get you to join their obvious fraud!

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So from a mainstream perspective, and it's quite a contradiction:

Here is a group of gullible suckers, who got conned into believing an obviously ridiculous lie. Also, they're really annoying because they're always try to trick us into the con too. Yet, and even more annoying, is they're smarter, wealthier, etc. than us! This obvious contradiction leads to the conclusion (or hope) that: "Sooner or later it's going to fall apart."

I also see a lot of complaints that the Mormon church is a fraud, a big corporation out to fleece its members (suckers).

Yet, I've never heard of a fraud, or a fraudulent company lasting nearly 200 years. There are very few legitimate corporations that old, and they appear to have all been bought-out by others (or, at least, completely adapted or changed their business model while retaining their name only).