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Originally Posted by juan valdez
thats an interesting take. Personally i reserve the term psychopath to the kind of people that intentionally drive their truck through a crowd of pedestrians and stuff like that.
Most people do. But consider the idea that psychopathy and intelligence/social class are somewhat independent. And let's oversimplify psychopathic urges to wanting to kill the largest amount of people possible. If I were an intelligent psychopath born into the middle/upper class, I would figure out at a young age that going into law and politics would be the most efficient way to accomplish my goals. Through politics I can destroy a society, such as Iraq, causing far, far more death and chaos than merely driving a truck into a crowd. Not only that but I can get rich doing so, and get to justify it with bold lies to boot. I can commence the dropping of bombs on civilians, go out to play golf the same afternoon, and people will think that is normal because of the office I hold.
This is the age of psychopaths, which will continue until they destroy us all, including themselves.
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The interesting thing is that people on the left are behaving like franken owned him while people on the right are laughing at what a blubbering buffoon he made himself.
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I thought there was a chance you were going to bring something new to the table but it seems like you're just outraged due to a lack of understanding of the rule of judge and have been manipulated by completely transparent, openly biased, and poorly formulated hit pieces.
As soon as I heard about Gorsuch's campaigning against divestment from apartheid South Africa (even after the university had made it's decision) I knew everything I needed to know about him. He's an evil person. In fact, I criticize Franken and the democrats for not having the courage or integrity to call Gorsuch what he really is.
This apparent reticence is really a requirement of the general (and despicable) effort by democratic leadership to maintain the status quo. A central component of that effort is to portray republicans in a certain range of perspective, as enemies but tolerable ones. Calling them what they really are would rock the boat too much. Corporations, who are making obscene profits at the moment, don't want boat rocking. They want the charade that the democrats put on for them in which political outcomes are portrayed as the the result of real differences between well meaning people. What we actually have now in government is a range cutoff at the lower spectrum of humanity, with scumbag democrats covering for psychopath republicans, both parties servicing a corporate agenda.