Philosophy Lesson - Why Are So Many Politicians Psychos?

Tall men dominate basketball.

Degenerate psychopaths dominate politics.

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, and 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.

Behold:

ABUSIVE ATTACKS TOWARD ‘INFERIORS’

FAKE, PLASTIC SMILING

EXAGGERATED FAKE LAUGHTER

FAKE CRYING TO GENERATE SYMPATHY

FAKE HUMILITY TO IMPRESS PEOPLE

FAKE PIETY

LACK OF EMPATHY FOR HIS VICTIMS

1. President Bush joked about not being able to find the “Weapons of Mass Destruction” upon which his deadly Iraq War was based. 2. President Obongo joked about the “Predator Drone” strikes which he ordered. 2.Secretary of State Killary Clinton joked about the torture-murder of Libyan leader Qaddafi.

When these self-centered lunatics are confined to ordinary jobs and professions, they may cause great harm to their employers and immediate contacts; but society at large remains relatively unaffected. The problem is that psychos, particularly the semi-intelligent ones, will instinctively gravitate towards positions of power and then use their cunning psycho “skills” to advance above the good guys.

In his study of the links between psychopathy and success, Oxford psychology professor, Kevin Dutton wrote:

“I’d done research with the special forces, with surgeons, with top hedge fund managers and barristers (lawyers). Almost all of them had psychopathic traits, but they’d harnessed them in ways to make them better at what they do.”

Dutton is right of course, but he is woefully naive in his belief that these medical, business, and political psychopaths had directed their character traits towards “making them better at what they do.” He totally misses the point that “what they do” is often kill innocent people, push surgeries on patients who don’t really need them, heartlessly fire people while off-shoring jobs to Third World countries, and rack up huge budget deficits while fomenting endless wars around the world. Do we really want such characters to be “better at what they do?”

In his excellent piece, Why Elites And Psychopaths Are Useless To Society, Brandon Smith explains:

“The problem is humanity is not only hardwired with a dark side; we are also hardwired with a conscience — at least, most of us are. All people are born with a shared moral compass that is often expressed in various religious works throughout the ages. It is a universal voice, or guide, that we can choose to listen to or to ignore. Organized psychopaths have struggled with the existence of this inborn compass for centuries.“

Excellent observation, Brandon. You see, our consciences pose a threat to The League of Unjust Psychopaths. So it’s not enough for them to rise to the top and to do evil. No. They must also corrupt the people at large, especiallythe children. A degenerate public, reared from early childhood in atheism and moral relativism, will never rise up in righteous indignation against their evil oppressors. How can they fight evil if they can no longer even define evil, let alone recognize it? Under the prolonged leadership of psychopaths, the day will surely come when stupid immoral psychopaths become, by design, the majority of the public.

One of America’s founding patriots, Samuel Adams, summed it best: “It is always observable, that those who are combined to destroy the people’s liberties, practice every art to poison their morals.”

America, we have an infestation problem!