The whole Bush family belongs in prison.It is one big criminal conspiracy.History proves it.

the wars and we didn't support torture.

others and delight in causing others harm. They are anti-social, meaning they do not like other people, they only tolerate and manipulate other people. They do not have have normal human behaviors such as compassion, generosity, honesty and peacefulness.

The majority of people are generally peaceful and cooperative in varying degrees.

We are not all war-hungry blood-thirsty monsters, some are, most aren't.

So to answer your question: No, we are not.

We, the majority of peaceful, cooperative, social humans must stop allowing these disruptive, crazy-making, chaos-living people to rule and damage our lives.

It just can't be, can it? Can it? It must be Them. Yes, it's Them.

We all contain the seeds of evil, but they only germinate in some people, some of the time. And when times get hard, more of those seeds sprout, and more of those people win. The rest of us just keep our mouths shut if we know what's good for us.

behave in ways against our true nature, which is basically peaceful, social, cooperative. But to say peaceful people are the same as psychopathic torturers is wrong. Most people have ethical regulatory systems inherent which cause them to pause and stop before potentially committing acts of harm. But some do not, these people are called psycho or sociopaths.

To use the old "we are them" mantra is simply to confuse people into believing the old "we are all sinners" line.

Read about Stanley Milgram's work and tell me that again.

But I'm a pessimist. You should probably ignore me.

If we look at the shadow selves in safe healing environments, then the shadow selves will not condemn us to lives of hatred and violence.

We can choose the path of healing or we can choose the path of destruction at any point in our lives. We are our own saviors, that is the amazing grace.

Hope exists for your pessimism, Glider

that parts of our government could do such things.

This gullibility or naivity isn't unique to America either.

However, I believe more people are gradually waking up to reality.

Who the heck would ever imagine they are not the worst of the worst?

This is what happens when we let crooks get away with being crooks. No one should be surprised at all that the bush cabal kept on being crooks.

The oligarchs convince ordinary people to behave like monsters to carry out their insane delusions.

It has always been the kings, queens, conquerors, emperors, corporatists who have enlisted people to kill, torture, steal and cheat for them.

When are we going to stop living the Abusers' life? When are we going to stand up and announce "No more" to these psychopathic economic royalists? When are we going to stop participating in the system ruling our lives created by the oligarchs? When are we going to democratically create a new system of equality and fairness for all? When are we going to start recognizing the wealthy con artists for what they are, thieves, enslavers and murderers?

Just as beheading, abuse of women and killing infidels is not emblematic of Islam or Muslims in general.

Every tree has its rotten apples.