Psychologically: Politicians Are Just Like Serial Killers

Examiner/The Lid ^ | 6/15/09 | The Lid

[Shellybenoit]

It was Ronald Reagan who said that Politics is the second oldest profession and it shares many traits with the oldest.

President Reagan might have been a bit off in this one. A recent FBI study of Psychopaths seem to indicate that Politicians share a lot of traits with Serial Killers. When you read what Jim Kouri has written about the study in the Examiner, it seems very real:

Interpersonal traits include glibness, superficial charm, a grandiose sense of self-worth, pathological lying, and the manipulation of others. The affective traits include a lack of remorse and/or guilt, shallow affect, a lack of empathy, and failure to accept responsibility. The lifestyle behaviors include stimulation-seeking behavior, impulsivity, irresponsibility, parasitic orientation, and a lack of realistic life goals.

See what I mean?

[NoPrisoners]

LMAO! As a psychotherapist, I find this dead-on! BTW, my more honest professors will admit that liberalism is a mental illness.

[WayneS]

I’ve long suspected as much but have never had any proof! Thanks.

;^)

[flowerplough]

“glibness, superficial charm, a grandiose sense of self-worth, pathological lying, and the manipulation of others. The affective traits include a lack of remorse and/or guilt, shallow affect, a lack of empathy, and failure to accept responsibility. The lifestyle behaviors include stimulation-seeking behavior, impulsivity, irresponsibility, parasitic orientation, and a lack of realistic life goals.”

Sounds too much like me. Am proud to report that I’ve resisted the dark side so far and am neither a politician nor a multiple-murder, yet.

[Oratam]

Human beings = means to an end.

[TurtleUp]

Interpersonal traits include glibness, superficial charm, a grandiose sense of self-worth, pathological lying, and the manipulation of others. The affective traits include a lack of remorse and/or guilt, shallow affect, a lack of empathy, and failure to accept responsibility. The lifestyle behaviors include stimulation-seeking behavior, impulsivity, irresponsibility, parasitic orientation, and a lack of realistic life goals.