sociopath summer camp

That there are only a couple of exceptions proves the rule. The political process attracts and rewards certain personality types and behaviors that are completely unlike what we would prefer. Nearly all go from little wealth to a great deal of wealth without ever creating anything useful or popular. The graft is almost universal.

An unacceptable percentage are attracted to what David Rockefeller called the “Get Out Of Jail FREE” card that successfully protects an incredible number of the cultural dregs from justice for rape, fraud, corruption, cocaine addiction, drug running, pedophilia, human trafficking, treason, murder and so much more – some cruelties ugly enough I won’t even write them.

During my decade+ of serious political activism, I met some of the more successful professional politicians. EVERY TIME I could FEEL THEM APPROACHING with an oozy, icky feeling no other humans gave off. These people are every bit as creepy in real life as anecdotes from inner circles, and investigative journalism reports show them to be.

Key attributes of a sociopath from Psychology Today:

Superficial charm and good intelligence
Untruthfulness and insincerity
Lack of remorse and shame
Poor judgment and failure to learn by experience
Pathologic egocentricity and incapacity for love
General poverty in major affective reactions
Fantastic and uninviting behavior with alcohol and sometimes without
Sex life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated

This is who they are.
This is what power and freedom from responsibility attract.
This is why, with a 99% assurance, the world would be a better place without them …
and MOST DEFINITELY without them in positions with protection and power.

– Ted –

The Pathocracy of the Deep State:

Tyranny at the Hands of a Psychopathic Government

by John W. Whitehead

from The Rutherford Institute

Politicians are more likely than people in the general population to be sociopaths. I think you would find no expert in the field of sociopathy/psychopathy/antisocial personality disorder who would dispute this… That a small minority of human beings literally have no conscience was and is a bitter pill for our society to swallow — but it does explain a great many things, shamelessly deceitful political behavior being one.”—Dr. Martha Stout, clinical psychologist and former instructor at Harvard Medical School twenty years ago, a newspaper headline asked the question: “
What’s the difference between a politician and a psychopath?”
 
The answer, then and now, remains the same: None.
 
There is no difference between psychopaths and politicians.
 
Nor is there much of a difference between the havoc wreaked on innocent lives by uncaring, unfeeling, selfish, irresponsible, parasitic criminals and elected officials who lie to their constituents, trade political favors for campaign contributions, turn a blind eye to the wishes of the electorate, cheat taxpayers out of hard-earned dollars, favor the corporate elite, entrench the military industrial complex, and spare little thought for the impact their thoughtless actions and hastily passed legislation might have on defenseless citizens.
 
Psychopaths and politicians both have a tendency to be selfish, callous, remorseless users of others, irresponsible, pathological liars, glib, con artists, lacking in remorse and shallow.
 
Charismatic politicians, like criminal psychopaths, exhibit a failure to accept responsibility for their actions, have a high sense of self-worth, are chronically unstable, have socially deviant lifestyles, need constant stimulation, have parasitic lifestyles and possess unrealistic goals.
 
It doesn’t matter whether you’re talking about Democrats or Republicans.
 
Political psychopaths are all largely cut from the same pathological cloth, brimming with seemingly easy charm and boasting calculating minds. Such leaders eventually create pathocracies: totalitarian societies bent on power, control, and destruction of both freedom in general and those who exercise their freedoms.
 
Once psychopaths gain power, the result is usually some form of totalitarian government or a pathocracy. “At that point, the government operates against the interests of its own people except for favoring certain groups,” author James G. Long notes. “We are currently witnessing deliberate polarizations of American citizens, illegal actions, and massive and needless acquisition of debt. This is typical of psychopathic systems, and very similar things happened in the Soviet Union as it overextended and collapsed.”
 
In other words, electing a psychopath to public office is tantamount to national hara-kiri, the ritualized act of self-annihilation, self-destruction and suicide. It signals the demise of democratic government and lays the groundwork for a totalitarian regime that is legalistic, militaristic, inflexible, intolerant and inhuman.
 
Incredibly, despite clear evidence of the damage that has already been inflicted on our nation and its citizens by a psychopathic government, voters continue to elect psychopaths to positions of power and influence.
 
According to investigative journalist Zack Beauchamp, “In 2012, a group of psychologists evaluated every President from Washington to Bush II using ‘psychopathy trait estimates derived from personality data completed by historical experts on each president.’ They found that presidents tended to have the psychopath’s characteristic fearlessness and low anxiety levels — traits that appear to help Presidents, but also might cause them to make reckless decisions that hurt other people’s lives.”
 
The willingness to prioritize power above all else, including the welfare of their fellow human beings, ruthlessness, callousness and an utter lack of conscience are among the defining traits of the sociopath.