Avoid The Utterly Useless Venture
One of the characteristics of a psychopath is the inability to admit they are wrong, or that they made a mistake. Another characteristic is the uncanny ability to win any argument that is presented against them, or at least they perceive themselves as winning no matter what the outcome may be. An argument is a challenge to their identity because part of their identity is that they know they can not be wrong or make a mistake. If that sounds like a regenerative circle, then you can see how disagreeing with a psychopath can be an utterly useless venture.
One of the problems with having a psychopath elected to public office is the combination of the two characteristics mentioned above. As long as they make decisions that do no harm, their personality disorder is of no consequence, and this does happen quite often. Doing what makes the general public they serve happy and content helps them keep their power and control, so they will jump on every opportunity to implement something that really doesn’t matter to them. The true problem with an elected psychopath is when they have a belief that is in opposition to the belief held by the majority of the people they serve. The public will give a push back on the idea, and that becomes an argument to the psychopath. As shown above, you should already know how the perceived argument is going to be handled – all hands on deck to defeat the enemy. And “all hands” does mean all hands. Elected officials have a staff, and their staff is hand picked to insure they are the faithful followers who will implement any order given them till the death.
A member of Congress who is a psychopath can have an impact on how the country is run, but the eight hundred pound gorilla is the room is the President. He not only has a staff, he has an entire administration, and the appointed heads of the various departments and agencies are the hand picked faithful followers who will follow the orders from above without question or push back. Now you have a machine that can roll over the values and principles our nation was founded upon to implement the personal belief of one person. Our current administration is a glowing example of this, and while not unique from other administrations headed by psychopaths, the astounding thing to me is the degree they are operating in the open with what they are doing. There is an attitude that no matter what action is taken, there is nothing anyone can do, so do anything you want. Most previous administrations at least worked at hiding what they were doing. Like I said, the current Administration is not unique, but I feel it should be used as a learning tool to show people what happens when you elect a psychopath, and you can’t do that until the people learn the characteristics of a psychopath. The education of the public is the only answer. The psychopath is a psychopath and their are no words or actions that will cause them to change, Their disorder is just as much a part of their identity as the color of their eyes. We just have to prevent them from getting what they are driven to have – power and control.
The title to this post is “Avoid The Utterly Useless Venture”. The only way you can avoid the venture is to elect well balanced individuals that can be trusted to govern in a manner that is consistent with the values and principles of our nation. Those values are what made the United States what it is, but unless they are maintained by succeeding generations, the country we have always been will no longer exist. It will not go away, it will just not be what it was designed to be. Based on the impact our nation has had on the world, that would be a significant loss and I fear what would take our place.
Human 09:44 on February 13, 2015 Permalink |
In the absence substantiating evidence, labeling the President of The United States—or anyone else—a psychopath is nothing but a hate mongering insult. Got any?
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GeneticPsycho 10:38 on February 13, 2015 Permalink |
I would offer that anyone who is recipient of a Nobel Peace Prize, and yet continues on the military offensive without remorse, is a psychopath.
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Jerry Caskey 12:44 on February 13, 2015 Permalink |
Thanks. Like I said, you can’t win a disagreement with a psychopath and evidently you are not allowed to have yoyr on opinion with hard and cold evidence, which means it’s not an opinion – it is a fact. I am unaware of how one lives life based on absolutely nothing but facts, because opinions are what leads to the development of facts. But hey, I’m just a guy who thinks about things, and I could be wrong.
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Human 12:57 on February 13, 2015 Permalink |
I ask you to substantiate your allegation and you respond with word salad. Telling!
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Human 13:00 on February 13, 2015 Permalink |
Your diagnostic approach is novel. Why bother with MRIs or Hare’s checklist if it’s that easy?
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Human 13:02 on February 13, 2015 Permalink |
(Response to GeneticPsycho)
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GeneticPsycho 13:06 on February 13, 2015 Permalink |
It’s easy for me because I grew up in a family of psychopaths. I know when someone’s actions contradict their words, and can plainly see the underlying void of conscience. This has been my experience for well over 40 years. Anyone outside of my family has no idea what debased level of humanity they are dealing with. Only people in the family know and they think it is real funny.
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Jerry Caskey 13:13 on February 13, 2015 Permalink |
Let me know when you can schedule the President of the United States for an MRIS and any other test. Until then we all get to guess. I made mine, why not stop arguing something that is not going to be resolved. A non- psychopath is capable of agreeing to disagree when the subject matter is unsettled. Anything else is just needless bickering. Just like last time, this is my final entry. Feel free to get the last word in, if it makes you day.
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GeneticPsycho 14:05 on February 13, 2015 Permalink |
Thank you for acknowledging my innovativeness. From my unique perspective (painful memories) I gladly share with the world my list of red flags so that anyone could identify the psychopaths in their lives:
10 Habits of Highly Psychopathic People:
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GemGirl 14:32 on February 13, 2015 Permalink |
In response to the “I would offer” comment by GeneticPsycho,
“It’s not that simple” is applicable.
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GemGirl 14:25 on February 13, 2015 Permalink |
Jerry Caskey has gall to diagnose Obama as a psychopath. I am a psychotherapist and I do not publicly diagnose individuals due to not having access to pertinent information to make an accurate determination.
Caskey’s writing is irresponsible.
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GeneticPsycho 01:14 on February 14, 2015 Permalink |
Psychopath, a designator for someone who has no conscience, is not a clinical diagnosis by Caskey. Jerry’s non-medical opinion is that Obama should be designated as such. It is up to lay people to recognize the lack of conscience in their fellow humans, if people would simply pay attention properly. It doesn’t require a college education, since psychopathy is not as scary and mysterious as most people are made to believe.
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Jerry Caskey 17:12 on February 14, 2015 Permalink |
So us uneducated dumbbells are not even entitled to an opinion. Strange attitude from a “professional”, but I am just an uneducated dumbbell with 72 years of dealing with the world, and the many different type people who live in it. Seems like the “professionals” were the ones who professed the world was flat at one time. I guess that was based on education and hard facts, surely it could not be an opinion.
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