Any of you guys think Republican officials have sociopathic traits?

I was just sitting around, and thought about this. This really isn't limited to one party. Or even officials... maybe the media talking heads.

I mean... they vote for (i.e. take part in) all this insanely wicked crap... yet they wake up in the morning and act like nothing happened. I would wager that if you showed most Conservatives officials pictures of dead Iraqi children that they helped kill... they would rattle off a cold-as-ice-tape-recorded response to how neccesary it was (kinda like Albright and the Iraqi Children question on the interview).

Rush and Hannity... they know they are spinning. Propagandizing Goebbels style. They know it. Yet they wake up and live thier lives. Maybe Rush popping all those pills shows his humanity to some point.

What do you guys think?

edit: wrong subject word.

Paul Wolfowitz's eyes will confirm this hypothesis.

but I don't think he's a sociopath...

I get the impression that's Paul's a nice guy.

Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

only my evil is more like a vengeful God, old testament style of evil... it's better to do evil than be evil, that was the theme of this WW2 movie I saw a while ago about a man who had to do some bad things, but saved a lot of lives. It was like Schindler's list, but in color... I forget the title.

If you were Delay... you helped fuck up Medicare, start an illegal war, further a completely destructive agenda in the interests of the elite (contrary to democracy) etc....

Would you be able to live with yourself?

if I were to do stuff like that, but for a liberal agenda, I might feel guilty... but if I felt I was doing the right thing, I wouldn't hesitate for a second... like confronting Reagan, for instance. It's always been a fantasy for me. To come face to face with that wrinkled senile bastard and let him know what an evil person he is and what suffering and death his policies have caused.

Most people would feel guilty about yelling and insulting a 92 year old Alzheimer's patient... but not me. :D

is more like putting a despot in his place. You aren't ending his life or anything relatively serious. I'm sure he was aware. Whether he felt bad or not is a different thing. I'm of the opinion that he was pretty much a dumb figurehead and 1980 was the year NeoCons and the bastard Bushies started thier shitty ass agenda.

lots of political drama... it isn't quite the united conspiracy people make it out to be.

Sure Reagan was somewhat of a dumb figurehead, but he was still the boss. At the end of the day, it is his signatures on all those executive orders... it was his okay to sell arms to the Contras... his okay to give Saddam support... his okay to cut taxes for the rich and raise them on everyone else.

Inept and ignorant or not, he's still responsible.

idiotic theory. Mind you, I am an atheist. About 2000 years ago, Lucifer picked a fight with Jesus. Jesus, being a liberal, fought fair. But Lucifer, as a conservative, fought dirty. So Lucifer won, and he switched clothes with Jesus and started the christian religion. How else can you explain Robertson and Falwell?

screw them Pubs, they are evil

but I doubt it... the Orthodox church is like the Bizzarro version of the religious right... there are a lot of good Christian people. It really isn't right to group those lunatics with mainstream christianity.

I don't necessarily believe IN anything. But I have some sort of feeling that there must be something beyond death. Some sort of force or power that will hand out justice to the wicked, and reward the good and those that have suffered in life.

But then again, we could just die and be in an endless, unconscious existence like before birth. Which, if I can remember, wasn't so bad.

I think there probably was a guy named Jesus who was really wise and good, but his followers propagated myths about him. And after Christianity became mainstream, it probably became twisted over the years. Like a 2 thousand year old game of that "pass the message" game.

There was an interview a year ago with Kurt Vonnegut wherein he mentiooned the traits of psychopathis personalities. He suggested in the interview reading a book called "The Mask of Sanity" by Hervey Cleckley. I went online to purchase it and found out the entire book was available pdf online.

Read it. It explains our very existance at the hands of those currently in power.

I always enjoy your posts.

Or at the very least, a good number of them are stuck on 'Neanderthal' in the evolutionary scale. I just think some people prefer to lie to themselves so reality doesn't interfere with their perfect little world.

I don't understand the hypocrisy and blindness. At work the other day, I commented on a story someone told about a woman who stuck her arm in a wolf's cage and the wolf had to be killed in order to free her arm. I said they should have just let the wolf rip it off. The co-worker thought I was serious and was appalled, LOL. I had to explain to her a couple of times that if I had come across the situation in real life, I probably would have shot the wolf to save the woman, but my point being that it was a stupid thing for a grown woman to do, and it resulted in the senseless killing of a wolf, which kind of made me angry. She didn't get it. I guess wolves don't count or something. I'm not saying that stupid people don't count, but I've read too many stories about people doing stuff like this, and it's some innocent animal that ends up dead. Jeez. And this from the same woman who said, 'She's right!' when I mentioned Coulter's statement about killing liberals.

No doubt about it. That man is a freaky dude.

I know a lot of you have been through basic training in the military. Try to think of the conservative culture like the second or third week of boot camp. By that time all your individual identity has been stripped away and you become part of the closed culture. You are so deeply into "group think" and values of the company that you no longer equate anything being done with either being moral or immoral, except perhaps, what you are told is moral or immoral in the context of the company. In order to gain status within the company you have to "out military the military".

In order to be a successful repub, you have to be more conservative than the other conservatives. Deviation from conservative group think is punished severely. Therefore you don't think of anything that is not in terms of repub success and, consequently, your success. There is no longer moral vs immoral, just repub success vs repub failure.

Why They Kill
by Richard Rhodes.

http://eserver.org/bs/reviews/2000-12-8-4.57PM.html

I tend to think of narcissim more than sociopathy--the complete inability to think of anyone but yourself and lack of empathy for others. hence, the screwing of the nation and the world for the interests of a very few.

I do however believe that Georgie Bush suffers from a serious ego problem. It's about 12 sizes too big for his head. He does not know the meaning of humility. And this is supposed to be an honorable man? Puh-leaze.