It’s a sickness of the soul. A rot. A contagion among the barely human.

It’s tragic that it thrives so well among sociopaths who claw their way up the ladder of success and obtain power over others. There is something deeply wrong in our priorities as a society when the psychopaths among us run the country and we accept it as normal.

you would find sociopaths and psychopaths are especially optimized for ascension to power. Be it in 20th century America, 15th century Italy, 10th century India or ancient Mesopotamia.

Once you see this human pattern our violent history makes sense. Instead of thinking that people naturally rise to power because of their intelligence and their better angel motives, they rise because they’re little more than bullying thugs wanting power over others. Not all of them, of course, but enough to cause the misery and wars that have plagued us in human history.

is that they want it so very badly. Leadership and structures of self-governance are a Catch-22, for sure. They require rational thinking and diligence for all to thrive.

Once, when an African president came to visit, Reagan was said to be fond of telling the Black-man-and-the-parrot joke.

You can look it up.

In the town where three voting rights advocates were murdered. I'm not shocked in the least that Reagan would say this to Nixon.

Smh.

How long until @DineshDSouza tries to claim that Nixon and Reagan were Democrats? (cc: @KevinMKruse)

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Are you telling me the Grandfatherly Gipper was a vile, purulent, slimy racist scumbag?

Next thing you know, you'll tell me that he hated gays, women, and working class union members too!