{"id":40164,"date":"2018-11-05T19:27:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T00:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40164"},"modified":"2018-11-05T19:27:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T00:27:41","slug":"shining-a-light-on-the-sociopaths-in-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40164","title":{"rendered":"Shining a Light on the Sociopaths in Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shining a Light on the Sociopaths in Politics<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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There are at least seven characteristics that define a sociopath, although I\u2019m sure the list could be extended:<\/p>\n

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  1. Sociopaths completely lack a conscience or any capacity for real regret about hurting people. Although they pretend the opposite.<\/li>\n
  2. Sociopaths put their own desires and wants on a totally different level from those of other people. Their wants are incommensurate. They truly believe their ends justify their means. Although they pretend the opposite.<\/li>\n
  3. Sociopaths consider themselves superior to everyone else, because they aren\u2019t burdened by the emotions and ethics others have \u2013 they\u2019re above all that. They\u2019re arrogant. Although they pretend the opposite.<\/li>\n
  4. Sociopaths never accept the slightest responsibility for anything that goes wrong, even though they\u2019re responsible for almost everything that goes wrong. You\u2019ll never hear a sincere apology from them.<\/li>\n
  5. Sociopaths have a lopsided notion of property rights. What\u2019s theirs is theirs, and what\u2019s yours is theirs too. They therefore defend currency inflation and taxation as good things.<\/li>\n
  6. Sociopaths usually pick the wrong target to attack. If they lose their wallet, they kick the dog. If 16 Saudis fly planes into buildings, they attack Afghanistan.<\/li>\n
  7. Sociopaths traffic in disturbing news, they love to pass on destructive rumors, and they\u2019ll falsify information to damage others.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    They\u2019re chronic, extremely convincing, and even enthusiastic liars, who often believe their own lies. That means they aren\u2019t easy to spot, because normal people naturally assume another person is telling the truth. They rarely have handlebar mustaches or chortle like Snidely Whiplash. Instead, they cultivate a social veneer or a mask of sanity that diverts suspicion. You can rely on them to be \u201cpolitically correct\u201d in public. How could a congressman or senator who avidly supports charities possibly be a bad guy?<\/p>\n

    \u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Shining a Light on the Sociopaths in Politics There are at least seven characteristics that define a sociopath, although I\u2019m sure the list could be extended: Sociopaths completely lack a conscience or any capacity for real regret about hurting people. Although they pretend the opposite. Sociopaths put their own desires and wants on a totally […]<\/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":[6],"tags":[6227,6228,637,22659],"class_list":["post-40164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-doug-casey","tag-international-man","tag-politics","tag-sociopathy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40164","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=40164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40165,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40164\/revisions\/40165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}