And hating is easier if your ideological opponents are not just mistaken, bad, or even evil, they have to be positively demonic. It brings out all the revenge fantasies, it makes torturing the bad guys OK. It justifies YOUR hidden desires to inflict unspeakable pain, it makes it OK, it makes it all right. Don't keep the perp from bumping his head on the squad car door...he's no suspect, he's a murderer/rapist.

Its not just a right wing perversion, it probably exists in everyone to some extent. Look at how many of Shakespeare's plays are revenge fantasies. Check out old Japanese Samurai flicks, American Westerns, Dirty Harry, Charles Bronson and Steven Segall.

But with fascists its extreme, it never stops and its never enough. They have to generate sufficient hate to get past the normal human inhibitions against violence, and the even greater constraints society puts on brutality. They didn't just lynch black folks, they set them on fire, skinned them alive, sicced dogs on them, dragged them behind pickup trucks. And of course, there were the gas chambers in Europe...this ain't just a redneck perversion.

We have our work cut out for us.