10 Reasons Why the US Government is like a Sociopath
- They pretend. They make things sound better than they are.
- They pit people against each other. Like Republicans against Democrats. Poor against rich. Etc.
- They cover up their mistakes.
- They can’t be equal to other countries. They have to be better. It’s a contest.
- They aren’t aware of their own problems.
- People are like pawns in their game and it doesn’t matter if they die or suffer.
- They are confident.
- They do as little as possible to get what they want.
- They care more about how they look than their substance.
- They have no empathy. People aren’t seen as individuals.
Being ruled by a sociopathic government creates fear and suffering for many. I wonder if this is because the government creates sociopaths or attracts them or both. Maybe people can become temporarily sociopathic in an environment conducive to it. It seems like many governments deal with this problem and the people suffer for it. Maybe we just need small communities and jails for sociopaths, but then I have visions of the Salem Witch Trials. Is there no solution? Will the majority of people always suffer because we have these sociopaths around who wreak havoc on the world? Maybe we should focus all of our efforts on finding a cure for sociopathy or at least a way to keep those with this condition, out of power.
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James 17:43 on March 30, 2015 Permalink |
I would confidently argue that while there remain positions of power to obtain, no matter what the society or government, some psychopaths will always rise to the top. It’s a social advantage to be a psychopath, and the only way you can level the playing field is by rigging the system to spot the psychopaths and eliminate from the competition. In short, the screening test proposed on this blog and elsewhere.
I absolutely understand why most people are concerned by psychopaths in power and it is clear that preventing them from gaining power in the first place is the best course of action for society at large.
And that is why your efforts will probably fail. In order for your proposal to become law, it would need the backing of the very people it would harm – the psychopaths in government. What are the chances of that happening? Unless you’ve seriously underestimated the number of psychopaths in positions of power (in which case, there is no need the proposal; democracy works on its own), the only way you will get your psychopathic overlords to relinquish their power is through armed rebellion. Am I wrong?
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@GeneticPsycho (Tina) 18:46 on March 30, 2015 Permalink |
You are absolutely right, James. The petition serves primarily as a vehicle to promote awareness, and open people’s eyes to identifying psychopaths on their own. I would hope then that psychopaths come forward and advocate their own human rights movement so as not to be attacked. The secondary purpose of the petition is to advocate change in policy. Realistic, or not, it is taking a step.
Which brings me to a perfect example of psychopathic control of information dissemination: It is my suspicion that the reason that psychopathy is missing from the DSM is to prolong the ability for psychopaths to hide. Psychopathy can remain a great mystery to the masses, in spite of the scientific research! I think the absence of psychopathy as a diagnosis is a purposeful action by psychopaths with great administrative power in the medical community.
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James 20:47 on March 30, 2015 Permalink |
That’s an interesting theory, and not one I would dismiss out of hand, but it does imply a greater level of co-operation between psychopaths than I would think possible. There is no ‘psychopath community’ (or if there is I am excluded from its ranks!) or sense of ‘camaraderie among villains’ any more than with non-psychopaths.
“Unless you’ve serious OVERestimated…”
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@GeneticPsycho (Tina) 20:58 on March 30, 2015 Permalink |
Illuminati. Nuff said. Okay, not enough said. Psychopaths only cooperate when they are directly compensated for their efforts. I’ve seen it in my family.
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James 21:08 on March 30, 2015 Permalink |
Would like if I could.
Illuminati just scrambled your servers and put in those typos of mine; they’re trying to discredit me now I’ve gone over to the other side.
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@GeneticPsycho (Tina) 21:10 on March 30, 2015 Permalink |
They don’t waste their time with little people like me. They focus on people who have proof of specific wrongdoings. I am considered harmless by default.
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@GeneticPsycho (Tina) 21:19 on March 30, 2015 Permalink |
Please say more about your position of “now I’ve gone over to the other side.”
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James 04:55 on March 31, 2015 Permalink |
I just meant now I’m sharing ideas with the people on this blog.
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James 13:24 on March 31, 2015 Permalink |
Didn’t see you had edited your comment. The kind of huge-scale co-operation such a conspiracy would require is implausible, even for naturally communitarian people, let alone antisocials.
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@GeneticPsycho (Tina) 13:46 on March 31, 2015 Permalink |
It only takes one person at the top to make the decision that the employees must follow. Any semblance of cooperation is moot.
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James 14:16 on March 31, 2015 Permalink |
In a dictatorship, yes. In a democracy (or a country that must maintain the illusion of democracy, if you prefer), such decisions must be taken collectively.
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@GeneticPsycho (Tina) 16:23 on March 31, 2015 Permalink |
I thank you for keeping this conversation going. I was forced to do some further investigation. David Kupfer is the Chair of the DSM-5 Task Force. He is the one responsible for psychopathy being left out of the DSM.
Get a load of this interview where he claims that nothing has changed in the last 20 years. He is a 73 year old psychiatrist, and refuses to get a grip on the new research material he’s supposed to be using for diagnoses:
http://www.svd.se/nyheter/idagsidan/frustrerande-att-inte-psykiatrin-natt-langre_4048565.svd
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James 16:37 on March 31, 2015 Permalink |
What does it say? I don’t speak Swedish and neither do many people reading this blog, I shouldn’t wonder.
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@GeneticPsycho (Tina) 16:41 on March 31, 2015 Permalink
I used google translate
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James 17:53 on March 31, 2015 Permalink
Google translate is a lot better than it used to be back in the day…
Can’t be good for such a large manual to have just one primary editor.
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Anon 05:50 on July 24, 2019 Permalink |
In any society in this world, psychopathic individuals and some of the other deviant types create a ponerogenically active network of common collusions, partially estranged from the community of normal people …
An ever-strengthening network of psychopathic and related individuals gradually starts to dominate, overshadowing the others….
After such a system has lasted several years, one hundred percent of all the cases of essential psychopathy are involved in pathocratic activity; they are considered the most loyal, even though some of them were formerly involved on the other side in some way….
The following questions thus suggest themselves: what happens if the network of understanding among psychopaths achieves power in leadership positions with international exposure?
‘Political Ponerology’, A. Lobaczewski
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Psychopaths use other narcissists and psychopaths. Many psychopath’s have friends just as disordered as they are, who have the same pathology and have no problems assisting the psychopath in his games and cons especially related to ‘love.’ Much like the outlaws of the gunslinging days, the outlaws covered each other’s backs but then turned around and shot each other. So can be the assistance that psychopaths receive from other pathologicals.
‘Women who love psychopaths’, second edition, Sandra Brown
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joie 00:18 on May 30, 2016 Permalink |
The stats, acoording to studies and even the US government , tells us that 4% of the US population are sociopaths. That’s 1 in every 25 people. That is more than (my degree is in public health) what would be considered an epidemic if it was a contagious disease. It is too high to be random. And too specified to the US. A film has been released with a scientist explaining to a handful of people at the Pentagon how he and his collegeagues have developed a respiratory virus that can deaden the part of the brain that makes religous fundamentalitst fanatical. Well think about it. Sociopaths are sociopaths because the part of their brain that feels compassion, empathy and remorse did not develop. In other words – it is deadened. Now what could the government do with a cadre of individuals with no empathy and no remorse for ANYTHING they do, or are told to do? How could they be utilized? How is it that most sociopaths are extremely intelligent? Thoughts?
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cd 17:06 on March 16, 2017 Permalink |
government employees have got nothing left but power; they are old and impotent and can not figure it out; that is all they have left, to harass people, they are so pathetic, so impotent!
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Anonymous 15:40 on June 9, 2018 Permalink |
The U.S. government itself is run by sociopaths. A sociopath is well aware and does not admit s/he is a sociopath. I believe the statistic is way too low, especially in the United States today. Narcissist personality Disorder is on the rise and more acceptable as the preferred way of life every day. Pathetic and scary to know there are many walking among us with no conscience.
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