Editor,
The term sociopath, or Antisocial Personality Disorder, is defined as “a pervasive pattern of disregard for and the violation of the rights of others.” There are many resources from which a list of sociopathic traits can be derived. The following include a few of the more prominent ones.
Lack of empathy, remorse or respect for others. A hunger for power and dominance. Emotional detachment. Limited conscience. Ruthless in the pursuit of goals. The ability to use charm or charisma to manipulate others for personal gain. Impulsive and deceitful. Tendency toward hostility. Easily angered or irritated. Repetitive lying. Sense of entitlement and impunity. Social deviance and deceptive tendencies. Irresponsible decision making. Ignorance of right and wrong. Problems with the law, including criminal behavior. Lack of guilt about harming others. Sexually abusive.
Kent Lauder
Burlingame
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(8) comments
"The man of impure speech is a person whose lips are but an opening and a supply pipe which hell uses to vomit its impurities upon the earth.”
-- Saint John Vianney
The trait of most Democrats that trumps all others is their need for power to control everyone because they’re distrustful about our meritocracy. They seek a one party, socialist/communist form of government to give therm absolute control over everyone.
Sociopath describes K Harris to a T if you look at her 28 year career as prosecutor, D.A. and A.G., which the media is blacking out.
Lying? She presents herself as a liberal when in fact she is an authoritarian right wing Republican according to her history as a tough on crime top cop. She opposed reforming 3 strikes and the cash bail system which hurts the poor. She didn’t allow independent investigations of police shootings. Didn’t go after police that sexually abused a minor. She pushed longer prison terms and more prosecution of petty crimes. Lack of empathy? She tried to prevent DNA evidence that may have saved a black man’s life before he was about to be executed. She convicted 2000 people for marijuana possession and later laughed when asked if she smoked in college. Harris tried to resist court ordered attempts to release non-violent offenders in order to to decrease prison overcrowding (which came about because of her aggressive prosecution policies) by saying “prisons would lose an important labor pool.”
The list is endless. Good articles are hard to find because search engine censorship is pushing articles that paint over her prosecutorial history. Here is an honest one:
https://reason.com/2019/06/03/kamala-harris-is-a-cop-who-wants-to-be-president/
Thanks for a virtually worthless LTE, Mr. Lauder. You’ve listed a few of the more prominent traits of a sociopath yet we can easily apply one, or a few of them, to everyone. For instance, have you re-read some of your previous letters? I see a tendency towards a lack of empathy, remorse, or respect for others. Easily angered or irritated. Repetitive lying. Have you read LTE’s and comments from cadre of the usual rabid left suspects here on the DJ? They all show the same if not more of the traits you’ve listed.
Wow thank you for this. 100% describes Gavin Newsom. Earily accurate and scary that this man is in power.
Kent - I can't wait for your psychoanalysis of the other candidate. Can I hold my breath?
Mr. Lauder,
Thank you for your information about sociopathic traits. It is easy to see that Donald Trump has problems. I didn’t realize that he has every trait listed.
Tafhdydicus Maximus... and that brings us to TDS.
A good number of folks on the left side of the aisle are afflicted with TDS, and we frequently see manifestations of TDS in these pages.
Is TDS real? Psychiatrists and clinicians will say "no," but there is no denying that a fear and/or hatred of all things Trump is disturbing some on the left to the point that their fear and hatred are affecting cognition and emotional well-being. That's actually sad.
I would not be surprised to see TDS discussed in the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manuel of Mental Disorders" when the sixth edition is published.
We can continue this discussion over some Redbreast 12-year Irish whiskey.
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