Leonard Pitts Jr.: Billy Graham's son questions Buttigieg's faith -- after defending Trump's

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

4. Rabid conservatives live for the rush they get from the fight. They love the adrenaline surge

that kicks in when engaged in a fight-or-flight battle with someone about their chosen outrage (abortion, Mexicans, women, liberals, Democrats, Hillary, Obama, etc.). I find it helps me to view them as untreated drug addicts who require bigger and bigger doses of adrenaline to get their high, just like a heroin junkie does with their drug of choice. The harder you fight them, the bigger adrenaline high they get.

I don't view them as being stupid or ill-informed so much as being under the control of a powerful drug. They need a Twelve-Step program, "Adrenalineholics Anonymous." "I am powerless over adrenaline, and my life has become unmanageable."

That's why the anti-abortion fight keeps expanding, from initially being against abortion to being against abortion in all cases, including rape and incest, and now to eliminate birth control, which they argue is tantamount to abortion.

In A.A. they teach that alcoholism is a disease, not a character defect. It might help to view extremist conservatism in the same light.