What makes a person fill their life with hatred? We see a lot of it lately in the political realm with people who are so vehement about their hatred for all things Obama, just as we saw it with anti-Bush people not so long ago. It seems to be getting worse. You see it in people who go over the edge with hatred for their co-workers, family, spouses, etc. They let it consume themselves so much that they rationalize violence and murder.

What can it be but an empty life that allows for nothing to take them off the path of hatred? Where else can they travel if nothing else exists for them? How do you get off your hatred path when you are on it?
 
Drawing and commentary © Marty Coleman
 
“Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.” – Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer and philosopher