Mr. Sociopath Goes to Washington

Guest Post by Dr. John Hunt

Natural laws are the laws that, if followed, promote the survival and thriving of humans. Natural laws are like laws of physics. We humans don’t write natural laws: we discover them. These contrast with civil laws that are written by humans. One of the natural laws is don’t initiate force or fraud against another person. Another is do what you agree to do. Adherence to natural law, by definition, promotes thriving of individuals and the human species. In contrast, defying natural law leads to distrust, war and death.

Sociopaths constitute from 1-3% of the population. Sociopaths are characterized by a disregard for the rights of others, a lack of empathy and lack of remorse, a willingness or eagerness to lie, no conscience, little impulse control or care about cause and effect, a desire to exploit others and to control them. They blame others when the faults are their own. They are narcissistic, defensive, manipulative, callous, hostile.

How do sociopaths survive, then, living as they do in such defiance of natural law? The answer, I propose, is that sociopaths have written so many of the civil laws. They’ve been able to do so by finding an easy niche in the world of politics.

Government holds the monopoly on the legal power to initiate force against the innocent. In other words, government has given itself the legal right to break natural law. Sociopaths live their lives defying natural law. You can see how politics (the control of government) is therefore a safe and attractive home for sociopaths.

Normal people like to control how nature affects them. Normal people fight entropy, keep out the rain, put food in bellies, and by so doing create value in the world for themselves and others. Sociopaths are different. It’s not nature’s effects they try to control. Sociopaths like to control people. Worse, the distorted reward mechanism in their brains cause sociopaths to be neurologically incentivized to cause harm to other people. And how can one cause harm to people and get away with? Again: by gaining political power.

In addition to their magnetic attraction to politics, sociopaths possess a set of strengths that help them be successful politicians. They can be charismatic, and are highly convincing liars. Lie about their political opponent? No problem. Lie about themselves? No problem. Perhaps bribe, extort, blackmail or kill a few people on the way up? No problem.

Sociopaths are great liars who have a desire to control people. Politics is the nexus of both the sociopath’s strength and his desire. Republican or Democrat? Matters not. The sociopath can lie their way through any election.

I wrote recently about the removal of neutral unbiased people from the climate science community through a process of multiple distillation, and how that could lead to laypeople receiving biased information regarding the very important issue of our shared climate. Such distillation and bias occur in many fields. Politics follows a comparable pattern of distillation, but one in which sociopaths become increasingly concentrated (distilled) within the halls of Congress (and state and local government too).

This distillation of the political class into one dripping with sociopathy is accomplished through several layers.

People desire to go into politics for many reasons. I will categorize them into five groups, the first four of which are all jerks:

  1. Category A politicians think they have the best answers. They think they are wiser, smarter, better than you. They seek power in order to institute their fixes. They will use threats of force and actual force (guns) to assure that you comply with their brilliance. In other words, as a matter of course, they are eager to use the very process that starts all wars—the initiation of force—as their way to accomplish their goals. Obama provided a good example with his compulsory medical insurance, but there are many others in the U.S. headlines regularly. Ocasio-Cortez fits into this category along with Bernie Sanders. The morality of these politicians is that their chosen ends justify the means.
  2. Category B politicians are sociopaths. They want to achieve power over others in order to parasitize off society or simply to cause destruction. There are multiple obvious examples like Hitler and Stalin and Pol Pot, and many others who are less blatant but constantly in the news vying for power over you. These people are immoral to the core. Sociopaths are quite at home in the toxic environment of the swamp, and I expect they swim in its lower depths as well—what is called the Deep State. They are chameleons. Wolves in sheep’s clothing. Fascists in socialist’s clothing. Thieves pretending to be concerned for the poor. They literally don’t care.
  3. Category C politicians believe government “service” to be a lucrative career financially, or a stepping stone to one. Such people are a waste of food.
  4. Category D politicians thrive on attention or think they will earn community respect through politics. They may be grandiose and narcissistic. Ideology is relatively unimportant.
  5. Category E politicians are the rarest breed. They seek power only to protect their freedom against the injuries caused by the previous four categories of politicians. They maintain hope that the political process might be useful to stop the bad politicians from wreaking havoc. Ron Paul is a good example.

Most aspiring politicians fall into categories A-D. So the first massive distillation step occurs: most people who choose to run for office are the type of people who should not be given power.

Category A politicians often justify lying, as needed, to accomplish their perceived greater good. In contrast, the sociopaths (category B) lie outright and need no justification to do so. They just do it. Stated with assurance and backed by the media, their lies gain the support of the uninformed, malinformed and ideologically disabled population, which then supports, contributes, and votes for them. Sociopaths out-lie the aspiring politicians from the other politician categories. This improves their election chances and concentrates their ranks further in the political sphere. This is the second distillation step that concentrates sociopaths in politics.

Once successfully elected into the world of politics, the politician is immersed in a group of colleagues who are culled from among the various groups of political wannabes above—cocky narcissists, crony leeches, and sociopaths. They have to mingle and try to make agreements and compromises with these untrustworthy people. This may be a sociopath’s nirvana, but the good Category E politicians usually can’t endure such miasma for very long, and so are more than likely to flee the political swamp once they have maxed out their tolerance for those who live in it. This attrition removes most of the good guys and leaves mostly the jerks in politics.

Although some flies and vermin from category C and D linger, politics becomes predominantly a battleground between Category A and Category B politicians: a battle between those who will force their will upon you vs. those who want to parasitize off you.

Overall, we have a system that attracts and then concentrates the very worst sort of people into positions of power. Yes, we have an opportunity to vote them out of office, but over the decades, these people have been able to rig the system to reinforce their power. They now control the regulatory regimes, the criminal justice system, the medical system, the retirement system, and support the fiat monetary system. They feed the crony-state. Most importantly, they control the education-indoctrination complex. They nurture divisions along racial and class lines. They promote insane economic notions. They start wars. They take away freedom. They make the laws.

It’s not a conspiracy. It’s simply what happens when we allow government to grow. Washington has grown until it has become intensely attractive to the worst sort of semi-human scum.

Is it any wonder that Congress is despised? Is it any wonder that it is essentially impossible to obtain justice at the national level? Is it any wonder that government has become a threat to liberty instead of a protector of it? Is it any wonder that government defies the laws of nature?

Government is a system that attracts the worst sort of people. And the effects of it are going to be bad, no matter what political party is running things. Relying on the political process to solve problems makes no sense and doesn’t work. Americans—regardless of party or priority—need to learn to solve each problem, not through the coercive mechanisms of government, but through voluntary cooperation of the people who choose to care about each problem. By using voluntary moral means to solve our problems, instead of relying on government, we will disempower the sociopaths and other jerks.

Disempowering the jerks should be a goal anyone but a jerk can support.

N.B.—In this commentary, I am collectivizing sociopaths into one group. But they are not all alike. We need to judge each sociopath individually, and I apologize in advance to any sociopath who has kept his proclivities in check.

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Lawyers and Prosecutors

Get lawyers and worse, former prosecutors the fuck out of politics!

Mad as Hell
Mad as Hell

The only way to get around this group of sociopaths is through as much independence as possible.
Get out of debt, do not take on any new debt. Avoid high tax locales (works well with the low / no debt path). Only then work as much as YOU see fit to pay the basics. Pay cash for everything you can LOCALLY. If you use credit at all, use it for as little time as possible. Remember, every minute you hold that debt, you are paying some scum bag sociopath some of your earned sustenance to fund their sociopathic scheme.
This combination and approach literally starves the sociopathic politicians, government and system of two things: Control and funding.
It is non-violent, non threatening, and simply takes some level of self control.
Unfortunately, the self control part is where most fail.

Ned
Ned

“If the natural tendencies of man are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?” ~ Frederic Bastiat, The Law

Vote for me asshole, I’ll rule you to freedom!

ordo ab chao
ordo ab chao

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anybody seen Rins?

annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum- appartently, the Vikings are getting tired of having their women and children raped !

credit
credit

Teach your children about sociopaths. Should they marry one, they are in for a life changing education and a ruinous one at that. Escape from such a relationship is never easy. And teach your children how to recognize and avoid them at school and work. They are charming, manipulative and smart. They are not that hard to identify. They lie, cheat and steal, then rely on your naivete and forgiveness to play one more day.

wholy1
wholy1

Great article to which I must reprise:
Gov/enforcement/political/academia/corp media/financial “services”/entertainment positions attract the worst, most egregious, nefarious, incompetent, parasitic UN-productive elements of social orders. Such “institutions” are the biggest haven for sociopaths, grifters, pedos and other scrum.

Taras 77
Taras 77

I am not sure if sociopath does it-it does not seem get to the psychopaths which I believe includes most of the more powerful clowns in govt; e.g.

This is a ball buster: Former trump atty Dowd gave an interview yesterday with ABC: bottom line is Mueller was finished with his “investigation” in March 2018 and this circus since then was carried on to provide cover to DOJ and FBI criminal/coup plotters!

Complete aand utter fraudulent investigation!

Dowd Nails It – Former Trump Attorney Outlines Insufferable Behavior of Mueller and Rosenstein in Perpetrating Political Russia Hoax…

Stucky

“Government is a system that attracts the worst sort of people.”

That, there, is the money line.

ProGunFred

This a brilliant statement and an excellent bit of writing but, me being a Christian, find it to be incomplete because the Natural Law, along with Revealed Law, the one not mentioned, is God’s law. Yes, sociopaths like to control people, but what they are attempting to do through their control is limit the damage done by the Fall. This is why they are so dangerous in government, instead of acknowledging the Fall and sin, and every man’s resultant duty unto Holy God, they assume the role of mitigator of the results of the Fall and BELIEVE that their work will take us one more step back, closer to the Garden. This is a most dangerous religion and, as the author rightly points out lends some leaders to consider themselves not only to be acting on God’s behalf but to be a god. This Statism is run by those who hear the devil whispering in their ear, thus the lying, and assumption on their part that the ends justify the means. Why do ‘normal people’ fight entropy? Because God is real and His Natural Law is universal. Study the Word of the living God like your life depends on it, why did America’s founding generation throw off those chains, it does.

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