Two Definitions –<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Psychopath: a person suffering from chronic mental disorder\nwith abnormal or violent social behavior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Psychopath; a person having an egocentric\nand antisocial personality marked by a lack of remorse for one’s actions, an\nabsence of empathy for others, and often criminal tendencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s like after a mass killing or after a serial killer is\nidentified, you always hear people who are interviewed saying, he seemed like\nsuch a nice guy, he was always so polite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Psychopathy has many causes, but America (the United States)\nhas a special version of psychopathy and its main cause is a kind of mass\nhypnosis. In America an incredible amount of people seem to accept so easily\nthat it\u2019s not really a big deal that the United States is committing atrocities\nall over the world. Because we are told it\u2019s for the right reasons; and besides\nI have better things to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Occasionally you will hear people question whether the\nUnited States should be the world\u2019s policeman. This illustrates the hypnosis.\nWe are the world\u2019s thug; not its police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
America is a hero based culture. The American psychopath\nlives with a kind of conviction that they are the heroes. They espouse and praise\nvirtue and goodness. They admire integrity. Even though they are none of these\nthings. They have been brainwashed or have brainwashed themselves into believing\nthat because it is a dangerous world, what would be evil, if someone else was\ndoing it, is necessary for them to do, to protect those values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Somewhere in their brains there must be a mechanism (that\nthey have cultivated to such a point that it itself has become subconscious)\nthat kicks in and heads any introspection, any glimmer of gut human response,\noff at the pass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The same goes for most mainstream journalists. These are\npeople who kiss their kids goodbye in the morning, then go to work where their\njob is to manufacture consent; to lie to their audience and make sure the vast\nmajority of the populace feel that there\u2019s a pretty good reason why their taxes\nare going to kill people who never did anything to them or even threatened them\nin any way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you had magic glasses that could see the truth, and you\nput them on while you were looking at most mainstream journalists, you would\nsee blood dripping from their hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sanctions are more evidence of this psychopathy. Congress\ncontinually passes (usually with a vast majority) sanctions on countries, as of\nthis writing on 39 countries, affecting 1\/3 of the people of the world. Members\nof Congress know that the only purpose of these sanctions is to destroy the\ncountry, to devastate the people to such an extent that they revolt and bring\nabout regime change to one that allows our plunder of their resources. At the\nvery least, if Congressional members don\u2019t acknowledge that, they do it to\npunish the country, which is just as psychopathic; seeing themselves as some\nkind of superior being somehow endowed with a supremacy that lets them decide\nhow others (most who have never done anything or even threatened anything at\nall against the United States) should live. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Recently I had an ongoing email discussion with an old\nfriend who I know down to my bones to be of the highest integrity and honesty. At\none point I said I was disappointed with and had no respect for our 2 Oregon (blue\nliberal state) Senators, because they were 2 of the 75 Senators who signed a\nletter to Trump urging him not to pull out of Syria and essentially telling him\nto keep up the good work we\u2019re doing there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My friend wrote back saying that he\u2019s glad they are our Senators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was thinking about it and in my head I was thinking how\nRon Wyden (one of our Senators) is a psychopath. Then I imagined saying that to\nsomebody and imagined their shock that I would use such a word to describe Ron\nWyden, a good Democratic progressive Senator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here\u2019s how I see it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Imagine there was this man you knew of, didn\u2019t know\npersonally but knew about his ideas and beliefs and political stances and were\nof the opinion that he was basically a pretty good person. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
One day you hear a knock at the door and it\u2019s this man. You\ninvite him in. He steps inside your house and shoots your brother dead.\nThinking Ron Wyden is not a psychopath would be like saying about this man, \u201cwell,\nof course I\u2019m opposed to what he did to my brother but on the whole he seems\nlike a pretty regular guy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The only difference between that man and Ron Wyden is that\nthe man who shot your brother only killed one person but it\u2019s someone you know\nand care about as opposed to Ron Wyden being responsible for hundreds of\nthousands of deaths, millions of refugees and a country being torn apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ron Wyden has no more of a good reason to support the\nongoing death and destruction in Syria than the man who shot your brother has to\ndo what he did. They are both psychopaths; people who kill and somehow have\nconveniently overridden the circuitry of humanity that most people have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The actions of Ron Wyden and our Congress both fit the\ndefinition of a psychopath being people who have an\negocentric personality marked by a lack of remorse for one’s actions, an\nabsence of empathy for others, and often criminal tendencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I pick on Ron Wyden because he has the power to directly\nwield death and destruction. But it should be made clear that Americans who are\nwilling to go along with the Empire\u2019s running amok around the world are also\nresponsible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is the infection of the American psychopathy; the belief\nthat we can do whatever we want to do to others that we would never in a million\nyears allow somebody else to do to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This psychopathy is historically viewed as and evident in\nthe histories of Genghis Khan, Hitler, the Roman emperors, and perhaps the\nBritish empire. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But in the United States now, it is imbedded almost in our\nculture. Our hero oriented culture makes it easy for the most evil players in\nthe United States government to sell the slaughter by the military or by\nsanctions to its citizens. It\u2019s a dangerous world and only our heroic efforts\ncan keep you safe and free. And fear is the icing on the cake of the lies told\nto make the populace compliant. The fear coupled with the message that we must\nact heroically facilitates the short-circuiting of the human response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Citizens of the Untied States should find what their country\nis doing repugnant. Even in a scenario where a violent response is necessary,\nif a situation has come to the point where we have killed, it should be occasion\nfor remorse and deep reflection. But our conquests are heroic and the victims\neither evil themselves or they are the unfortunate ones (collateral damage) who\nmust pay the price as we liberate their comrades. No remorse necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Congress repeatedly passes sanctions on Russia, on\nVenezuela, on Iran, on Syria, on Nicaragua, and many more countries. Most of\nthe votes on these sanctions are unanimous or nearly unanimous. And, again,\nmost of these countries never did a thing to the United States or even\nthreatened us in any way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pretty much nearly every United States Congress person is a psychopath.\nWhere is the reflection? Where is the learning? It is now pretty much agreed\nthat the Iraq war was a mistake. But we keep doing it. Where is the humanity?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And where is the humanity in my fellow citizens who aren\u2019t\noutraged at the actions of our Presidents and our Congress?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is the hypnosis that is the American psychopathy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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In this clip, from the RT show CrossTalk, Wolf Blitzer, CNN’s “lead political anchor”, demonstrates perfectly the American psychopathy. Regarding the ongoing bombing of Yemen, causing the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, he points out that peace has a substantial downside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n