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The whole republican party is a pathocracy..
"Throughout history, psychopaths, sociopaths, narcissists, and assorted antisocial-personality-disordered individuals have ruled societies.
Psychopaths and sociopaths often exhibit glibness and superficial charm, have a grandiose sense of self-worth, are pathological liars, display extreme narcissism, are deceitful, cunning and manipulative, exhibit a lack of remorse or guilt, show a callous disregard for the feelings of others, have no conscience, lack empathy, and fail to accept responsibility for their actions.
In a competitive world, the people who act immorally, who have no regard for truth, are going to have an advantage over those who play by the rules. The result is that those who achieve positions of power will be the most ruthless, the most sociopathic, the ones without conscience"
http://www.pathocracy.net/
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https://pathocracy.wordpress.com/definition/
Characteristics of pathocracy
3. impoverishment of moral values; a social structure based on self-interest and one-upmanship, rather than altruism.
11. an attitude of hypocrisy and contempt demonstrated by the actions of the ruling class, towards the ideals they claim to follow, and towards the citizens they claim to represent.
13. extreme inequality between the richest and poorest.
16. people are considered as a resource to be exploited (hence the term human resources), rather than as individuals with intrinsic human worth.
18. arbitrary divisions in the population (class, ethnicity, creed) are inflamed into conflict with one another.
20. violation of basic human rights, for example: restriction or denial of basic life necessities such as food, water, shelter; detainment without charge; torture and abuse; slave labour.
There is more to that definition..
http://www.systemsthinker.com/interests/systemsthinking/humansystems/pathocracy.shtml
So do you like living in a pathocracy?
I don't.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Hell no, I don't like it. Ty for posting!
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,480 posts)It needs to be said.