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If you believe that sociopaths are in charge, you’re right
American Thinker ^ | 5 Apr, 2024 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 04/05/2024 11:33:36 AM PDT by MtnClimber

For sociopaths, their end always justifies the means, and it turns out that the most powerful people in America have no brakes.

Anyone with a brain knows that there was epic cheating behind Biden’s “win” in 2020, ranging from official cheating (e.g., mail-in ballots, drop boxes, and ballot harvesting) to unofficial cheating (e.g., delayed vote counts, faked ballots, and illegal registrations). Pollster Scott Rasmussen has discovered something very disturbing about all that cheating: While ordinary Americans want fair elections, the “elite”—that is, the rich, powerful, and connected—don’t. They want only to win.

According to the Issues and Insights editorial board:

Earlier this year, pollster Scott Rasmussen asked voters a simple question: “Would you rather have your candidate win by cheating or lose by playing fair?”

The answers he got back were, as he put it in a Daily Signal podcast last week, “the most terrifying poll result I’ve ever seen.”

Among all Americans, just 7% said they would want their candidate to win by cheating. As Rasmussen put it, he’d rather see that number lower, but that’s not bad.

But more than a third of the elite 1% he surveyed would condone cheating. And among those who are “politically obsessed” – meaning that they talk about politics every day – that number shot up to 69%.

The same editorial notes that this 1% of “elites” is almost entirely Democrat. Credentialed people (i.e., college and university graduates) are more likely to be Democrats, as are the wealthy. These are the people who control the levers of power in society, so the fact that almost 70% of those who are most concerned with politics think cheating is a fine way to win is a terrifying thought.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: books; communism; elites; herveycleckley; politicians; sociopath; sociopaths

1 posted on 04/05/2024 11:33:36 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Why am I not surprised? I have known many leftists and they tended to be liars, thieves and scumbags. That is why I am not surprised.


2 posted on 04/05/2024 11:33:53 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

Of course sociopaths with a different agenda want control. Either way, you end up with socipaths.


3 posted on 04/05/2024 11:35:54 AM PDT by joesbucks (For 2,000 years Christians have been warning of the Anti-Christ. Now they buy Bibles from him. )
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To: MtnClimber

"By Any Means Necessary"


4 posted on 04/05/2024 11:37:29 AM PDT by kiryandil (what Ukrainian electrical grid doink?)
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To: MtnClimber

Debt
https://gab.com/Matt_Bracken/posts/112218515480571707/media/1


5 posted on 04/05/2024 11:40:16 AM PDT by combat_boots
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To: MtnClimber

Let’s not give the leftist vermin too much credit. Saying “the ends justify the means” implies they feel the means are wrong but necessary. I believe those monsters in human skin enjoy the means just as much as the ends.


6 posted on 04/05/2024 11:40:22 AM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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To: MtnClimber

Similar experience here. I’d add many of them are craven cowards when confronted. Brings to mind Churchill’s comment about “the Hun”.


7 posted on 04/05/2024 11:41:15 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: MtnClimber

From a wimpy excuse making WebMD description:
The word sociopath (and its cousin, psychopath) carries a lot of stigma and misconceptions. Popular movies and books tend to show sociopaths as cruel and heartless. As a result, people often think that those with ASPD are always criminals, but this isn’t true.
The word sociopath (and its cousin, psychopath) carries a lot of stigma and misconceptions. Popular movies and books tend to show sociopaths as cruel and heartless. As a result, people often think that those with ASPD are always criminals, but this isn’t true.


Note this list which includes all the Democrats and progressives I know: (you might try plugging in Bill and Hillary Clinton and Hunter and Joe Biden, and Elizabeth Warren, AOC and the View panel to confirm this.)

Lack of empathy for others
Impulsive behavior
Attempting to control others with threats or aggression
Using intelligence, charm, or charisma to manipulate others
Not learning from mistakes or punishment
Lying for personal gain
Showing a tendency toward physical violence and fights
Generally superficial relationships
Sometimes, stealing or committing other crimes
Threatening suicide to manipulate without the intention of actually doing it
Abusing drugs or alcohol
Trouble with responsibilities such as a job, paying bills, etc.
https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/signs-sociopath


8 posted on 04/05/2024 11:48:24 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: frank ballenger

I’m reading “The Sociopath Next Door”. Deuce Biggolo recommended it on the Glen Beck show. 2 hour interview. The guy’s smart. Say him on Gutfeld once. If he could sit in for him as host for a week I’d be really funny.


9 posted on 04/05/2024 12:00:31 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Haven’t read it.

Here is a Goodreads quote about reaction to the content:
“The best way to deal with a sociopath is to avoid him or her, to refuse any kind of contact or communication. The only completely effective way to protect yourself is to disallow him or her from your life altogether.”

A near hermit myself, I am trying to live by that.


10 posted on 04/05/2024 12:08:39 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: frank ballenger

All of DC should be shunned. And not provided with any resources or services; electricity, water, garbage removal, gasoline, ....nothing, not even toilet paper.


11 posted on 04/05/2024 12:23:47 PM PDT by curious7
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To: DIRTYSECRET

By Deuce Bigelow, I believe you mean the actor who played him (Rob Shreider? spelling?) He is participating in a charity golf tournament with our traditional FSSP Catholic Church. He is friends with our pastor, so I suspect he has taken a turn to the right overall.


12 posted on 04/05/2024 12:31:45 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana
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To: DIRTYSECRET

By Deuce Bigelow, I believe you mean the actor who played him (Rob Shreider? spelling?) He is participating in a charity golf tournament with our traditional FSSP Catholic Church. He is friends with our pastor, so I suspect he has taken a turn to the right overall.


13 posted on 04/05/2024 12:32:18 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana
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To: MtnClimber

Yep.


14 posted on 04/05/2024 1:46:55 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: DIRTYSECRET

The definitive study of sociopaths and sociopathy is Dr. Hervey Cleckley’s seminal work “The mask of sanity”; it was first published in 1941 and has been revised several times and is still in print.


15 posted on 04/05/2024 2:12:14 PM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all antisemites)
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To: MtnClimber

Yep.

I worked in the belly of the beast. An aide for a Democrat Congresscritter.

My coworkers were generally nice people. But even back in the 80’s - when I had this job - they lost their minds on the subject of Republicans.

Republicans were so evil, so vile, so dangerous to our nation that ANYTHING was acceptable if it stopped them.


16 posted on 04/05/2024 4:17:03 PM PDT by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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To: MtnClimber

“”””While ordinary Americans want fair elections, the “elite”—that is, the rich, powerful, and connected—don’t. They want only to win.”””


And that is why millions of illegal aliens have already been registered to vote and no one seems concerned until it is too late.


17 posted on 04/05/2024 5:25:07 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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