Reply #58: There is definitely no shortage of Pathocrats but

[Larry Ogg]

you have to first understand the collective nature of the beast before you go around slinging names, because whole societies are caught up in a state of defending their ideologies and leaders within various fractured in-groups that contribute to the mass insanity called Pathocracy, the sad truth is that if you have a conscience and don't understand this problem discovered in “psychology” you are most likely, to some varying degree, part of the problem. Why? For starters, even though psychopaths have no conscience, they are keenly aware of how conscience affects those who do, and they are masters at using this awareness to their benefit, by turning reality and truth upside down and inside out (for instance think about the power of the M$M / faux news), and thus, they gain blind support and trust from their naïve gullible followers. This of course allows them to gain power positions and influence within every public institution and ideology, i.e. church, government, political parties, corporations, military, law enforcement, mass media, education etc. etc; just remember.., where there is power psychopath wants it; and when these positions of power are under their control they are able to, slowly over time, change the laws of the land and program the amenable minds of their followers with a false reality that is inimical to their own best interest, and when things go wrong the pathocrats can and do sweep it under the rug, or better yet, put the blame on someone else.

People of conscience also cling to their ideology as if it is some monolithic shield that will preserve a way of life and protect them from evil, and the leaders play the role of both champions and gate keepers of the ideology, but as psychopathic influence gains a foothold, over time the ideology is gutted and morphs into something that would no longer be recognizable by its original founders, yet there remains the façade of the ideology in which the politicians wrap themselves in; praising it and glorifying for the benefit of followers who are called upon to defend it with their lives in the name of some noble cause, but more like defending it against the evils pathocracy itself conjured up to gain power, and what it then created simply because of the nature of the beast, i.e. the consequences to its actions, this facade tragically becomes the new conventionality that fools the masses. But eventually people start becoming more and more aware that something isn’t right and they begin to resist, and eventually they become a threat to the pathocracy, and the new enemy of the state; “if your not with us you are against us” becomes the meme of anxious in-groups being torn apart over what the ideology is supposed to be as opposed to what is becoming or has become.

I hope that I have given enough contexts as to why naming a bunch of names might not be appropriate; I could list almost every republican politician and that would be mostly true and OK with the rules of Democratic Underground; unfortunately as much as we would like to believe it, the Democratic Party - though less infected, has no special immunity to the influence of psychopaths, and they are notorious for bipartisanship as well as not prosecuting the crimes of the Republican Party, but I’m sure that the more the American way of life decays democratic voters will begin to clean their own house.