Psychopaths in Power
October 8, 2018
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DEMOCRACY tends to draw psychopathic personalities to power. In “Psychopaths, Basketball Players and Politicians,” Mike King at The Anti-New York Times explains why. He writes:
So, why is it that so many psychopaths (who constitute a small minority of the general public) rise to the top of certain fields? It’s for the same reason that so many men 6′ 5″ or taller, rise to the highest levels of professional basketball. During the course of our daily routines, it is a very rare occurrence to come across a man that tall. When we do, our eyes are drawn to him. “Damn. That guy is tall.”
But if you were to buy a court-side ticket to an NBA basketball game, you would see as many as 20 men who are 6′ 5″ or taller, all in the same place and at the same time. Not only the players, but some of the coaches too! Coincidence? Conspiracy? It’s neither.
Obviously, great height makes a man closer to the basketball rim. As surely as heated air will cause a balloon to rise, so too will tall men rise through the ranks of shorter men and reach the NBA. A trait that is so rare among the general public, is “normal” among NBA players.
In the realm of “democracy” politics, in which the object of the game is to sell 51% of the dumb-as-dirt 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 a degenerate scumbag 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. And in politics as in NBA basketball, we know who those owners are, right? (((cough cough))).
Occasionally, a good politician, (or a 5″ 11″ basketball player), may make his way to the top tier. But those are the rare exceptions, not the rule. A wise man once wrote:
“It (Democracy) is, first and foremost, the cause of the incredible inundation of all political life with the most inferior, and I mean the most inferior, characters of our time (psychopaths)” .
As dirty flies buzz towards fresh dog poo on a steaming summer sidewalk, so too are unusually psychotic freaks drawn towards political office (just as unusually tall men gravitate towards the game of basketball).They will then rise high and higher.
