{"id":19361,"date":"2016-03-31T15:03:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T20:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19361"},"modified":"2016-03-31T15:03:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T20:03:08","slug":"from-democracy-to-pathocracy-the-rise-of-the-political-psychopath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19361","title":{"rendered":"From Democracy to Pathocracy: The Rise of the Political Psychopath"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Democracy to Pathocracy: The Rise of the Political Psychopath<\/a><\/h3>\n

\u201cPoliticians are more likely than people in the general population to be sociopaths<\/a>. 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 \u2014 but it does explain a great many things, shamelessly deceitful political behavior being one.\u201d\u2014Dr. Martha Stout, clinical psychologist and former instructor at Harvard Medical School<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Twenty years ago, a newspaper headline asked the question: \u201cWhat\u2019s the difference between a politician and a psychopath?<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

The answer, then and now, remains the same:\u00a0None<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There is\u00a0no difference<\/a>\u00a0between psychopaths and politicians.<\/p>\n

Nor is there much of a difference between the havoc wreaked on innocent lives by uncaring, unfeeling, selfish, irresponsible, parasitic criminals and\u00a0elected officials who lie to their constituents<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n

Psychopaths and politicians both have a tendency to be\u00a0selfish, callous, remorseless users of others, irresponsible, pathological liars<\/a>, glib, con artists, lacking in remorse and shallow.<\/p>\n

Charismatic politicians, like criminal psychopaths,\u00a0exhibit a failure to accept responsibility for their actions<\/a>, have a high sense of self-worth, are chronically unstable, have socially deviant lifestyle, need constant stimulation, have parasitic lifestyles and possess unrealistic goals.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t matter whether you\u2019re talking about Democrats or Republicans.<\/p>\n

Political psychopaths are all largely cut from the same pathological cloth, brimming with\u00a0seemingly easy charm and boasting calculating minds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Democracy to Pathocracy: The Rise of the Political Psychopath \u201cPoliticians 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[204,13197,13198,13199,643,10814,5723,1213],"class_list":["post-19361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-democracy","tag-john-w-whitehead","tag-pathocracy","tag-political-psychopath","tag-power","tag-psychopaths","tag-rutherford-institute","tag-totalitarianism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19362,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19361\/revisions\/19362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}