What I don't understand is why Rethugs are so full of hatred

[hatrack]

5. Endorphins . . . it's like first-person shooter games

I never got that much into gaming, and when I did, I found it frightening.

For a few weeks I was playing a lot of Quake (this was a long time ago). What I noticed is that when I was falling asleep, or waking up, my hands would be twitching as they would if using the mouse and keyboard, and I'd flash briefly on images from the game as if I were playing it.

That's why I quit - I didn't like the idea of willingly rewiring my own brain and further conditioning myself by spending even more time on the computer so that I could get to the next level or slay the next monster. Paying for the privilege made it even more weird and skeevy.

Members of the GQP discovered the same endorphin hit through Hate TV, Hate Radio and Hate Internet. They didn't stop. They wanted more. Eventually they needed more, millions and millions and millions of them, all rewired to hate, like so many Pavlov's Dogs with cars and jobs and kids and 401(k)s.

And here we are.