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The culture war is not fundamentally between left and right, liberal and conservative, progressive and reactionary, tolerant and intolerant.
Fundamentally it has nothing to do with ideals, values or visions of the future. It’s a fight between decent people and sociopaths.
Psychopaths are congenitally shameless. Born, that way, they are neurologically deaf to the inner nag of empathy.
Sociopaths aren’t born but made. Some are brainwashed but many are not. Many are motivated sociopaths because being one is tempting, satisfying, efficient and effective.
Sociopaths learn how to be shameless. We underestimate the appeal of shamelessness. Shame constrains us. Shamelessness is a liberation. If you learn to be absolutely shameless – even shameless about your shamelessness, you grant yourself the ultimate dream come true, a reliable feeling of perfect freedom and perfect invincibility, as though you can do anything and whatever you do beats all. […]
What a funny man, writing a funny article, and toothless to boot. The headline has a very clear answer – Sociopaths are winning because the system rewards them instead of punishing them. The distortions of the Judicial system started under Nixon with the so called “War on Drugs” was made more intensive under Reagan with “Greed is good” mentality. The system was happy to jail people for possession of marijuana by the hundreds. Meanwhile the corporate class learned its lessons from the Savings and Loan scandal where there was a modicum of accountability, and transformed the system into “too big to fail”. So the Sociopaths gained control of the system, and de-fanged the regulators. If you wish sociopaths to control their behavior an outside force called Law Enforcement will have to do so. Start jailing them and punishing them for their criminal activity and the behavior will change.
Stephan, you are soooo right on about sociopaths trying to control our country! Where is any policy coming from the GOP? Nada! It’s all about ruling and power, particularly a kind of fascism that will destroy the democracy we have fought for over centuries! It’s about money and how much they can make on their controlling society to their wills. But there seems to be a small re-awakening about the danger of the GOP and its Project 2025. Even liar Trump is pretending he knows nothing about it, even though most of the people writing it worked in the Oval Office or somewhere in his administration and he knows perfectly well what is it in because in a number of speeches he quotes directly from Project 2025 about what he’s going to do should he be re-elected: fire 50,000 Federal employees, have the DOJ answerable only to him and prosecute anyone who disagreed with him or gave him a hard time. If an attorney would not do that, they would be fired! Go look at Project 2025 and see what’s in store for this country. It should curl your hair! It will be the end of democracy as we know it.
So true! That’s why they didn’t have platform in 2020 and do not have one now other than the Project 2025.
And may I remind you, Trump Lost in 2029, there was No Red Wave in 2022 and Blue won most special elections in 2023. That should tell you something. If Fox News did not exist and spread their disinformation and lies, Trump, his allies and Putin supporters would have been long gone by now.
Correction Trump list in 2020