Politicians as Psychopaths
December 30, 2015
Fake piety
More fake piety
MIKE KING at The Anti-New York Times theorizes that at least 80 percent of top political figures meet the clinical definition of the psychopath, and I heartily agree:
My case for an 80% psychopathy rate was based upon a very simple analogy to professional basket players. Sometimes, the most effective philosophy is the simplest; like Aesop’s Fable for example. My basketball player analogy worked so well on [a friend], that I decided to submit an expanded version of this concept to my loyal readers.
You see, most of us “normal people” are able to contain our dark sides; being more ‘good’ than we are ‘bad’. Then there is another group of people who are generally more bad than good, yet not totally evil either. Those are the people we talk about as, “He’s a real such and such, but he does have a good side to him.”These types can still be salvaged, or at least contained.”
Then there is the true psychopath; a heartless, soulless, shameless devil who will smile in your face, charm you and flatter you as he (or she) sticks the knife in your back. He is often charismatic, likable and energetic. He lies effortlessly. He will draw anyone into his orbit that can serve to further his ambitions, or fuel his ego with “narcissistic supply”. He manipulates. He cheats. He sucks the lifeblood out of you and then, when you are no longer of any value to him, he will discard you like a used up lemon.
To achieve his nefarious ends, the narcissistic psychopath will play every emotional card in his manipulative arsenal; alternating between outbursts of anger and verbal abuse, empty flattery, fake sympathy for others, false pity for himself, fake smiling or laughing, fake crying, fake humility, false charity and fake piety.
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In the realm of Democracy politics, in which the object of the game is to sell 51% of the brain-dead public on the idea of voting for you, the psychopath will rise to the top more easily than an honest man; just as a 6′ 5″ basketball player will rise to the NBA more easily than a 5′ 11″ player. It is very difficult for a good man to compete with someone who is willing to lie, cheat, make empty promises and take bribes in order to win an election. Compounding the problem are the “team owners”, who are extremely skilled at identifying, recruiting and developing the most promising “players” to their advantage.
