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April 30, 2008 at 05:47:39
Textbook descriptions of George Bush reveal psychopathy, and much worse. by Ed Martin Page 1 of 2 page(s) |
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The research of Dr. Hervey Cleckley and Dr. Robert Hare exploring the personality and character traits of psychopaths, when applied to George Bush, shows that Bush fits exactly the profile they developed for the psychopath. Demographis show that Republicanism is much worse than psychopathy. An excerpt from the book Blood Relations, by Eric Konigsberg, about his great-uncle Harold, a convicted murder: Hervey Cleckley in his book, The Mask of Sanity, describes the psychopath as a certain type of cruel manipulator whose harmful actions are accompanied by an absence of delusion. The psychopath, he wrote, "does not hear voices. In theory, he can foresee the consequences of injudicious or antisocial acts." A psychopath is a person who knows full well the difference between right and wrong and yet, without compunction, chooses to do wrong. Checkley cited the protagonist of The Incredible Charlie Carewe, a novel by Mary Astor, as a quintessential psychopath. "Charlie is a genius in reverse with dangerous charm. Sisters lie for him, parents defend him, friends obey him. While calmly and casually, Charlie Carewe literally gets away with murder." George Bush has calmly, casually and gleefully murdered a million innocent Iraqis. So far, he's gotten away with it.
Robert Hare got first hand experience with psychopaths while working at a prison near Vancouver. Hare describes one inmate as having a winning personality, and he used it to test the limits of what Hare would do on his behalf. He lied endlessly, lazily, about everything, and it disturbed him not a whit whenever something in his file contradicted one of his lies.
Reid Meloy, a forensic psychologist at the University of California, San Diego, says of the psychopath, "Typically the way a person like this maintains an inflated view of the self is by devaluing other people, taking advantage of them. If you look at the trail of a psychopath, you will see it littered with wounded, angry people."
Yes, better than 70% of the people in the United States alone, not counting more than 20 million people in Iraq and an untold number in the rest of the world are wounded and angry.
George Bush uses a derogatory nickname for just about everyone around him. Turdblossom. He also uses the diminutive to belittle. Brownie for a grown man.
Hare developed a system of identification for psychopaths that includes various personality and character traits:
Glibness/superficial charm, grandiose sense of self-worth, pathological lying, cunning/manipulative, lack of remorse or guilt, shallow affect, callous/lack of empathy, failure to accept responsibility for own actions, parasitic lifestyle, lack of realistic, long-term goals, irresponsibility, criminal versatility.
I don't have to list examples of Bush's actions and behavior for you to match them up with the above list, but let's take one, failure to accept responsibility for own actions. When Bush was asked if he had ever made any mistakes, he replied that he couldn't think of any. That's just one. Another is parasitic lifestyle. Bush has lived off of relatives, friends and the government all of his life. He now lives in government provided housing and receives government provided funds to live on. Perfect examples. The rest fit just as well.
Some more character traits of the psychopath that fit George Bush perfectly:
Uses defense mechanism of projection, blaming others for own faults, impervious to anxiety, depression, unremorseful, lack of self insight, no self humor, can't stand to be the butt of jokes, uses neologisms, makes up strange new words, lack of probity, courtesy, doesn't tolerate society's niceties or obligations, does not learn from mistakes, tends to think in concrete black or white terms.
That last one is the same as Bush's "You're either with us or you're against us." Another perfect example.
From the inordinately high number of Republicans who exhibit some or all of these psychopathic traits, such as Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter, Rove, Addington, Cheney, Rice, Wolfowitz, Pearle and Feith, to name just a few, and those such as Cunningham, Abramoff and others who are in prison for their psychopathic acts, we would have to think that either psychopaths naturally became Republicans or that Republicans, for some abnormal reason, admire and elevate psychopathic behavior as the highest ideal to be emulated.
Normal distribution would show the rate of psychopaths born to be evenly distributed among the population. But, as we have seen, there is an abnormal nimber of psychopaths among Republicans. There just can't be that many more psychopaths born to Republicans than to anyone else. It has to be learned behavior by people brought up as Republicans. Their immersion in Republican culture and society naturally warps their minds and leads them to think that psychopathy is normal, ordinary behavior. They've been taught that way of thinking as the highest ideal and that it is the only way to deal with the world.
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This is a truely bizarre article.
First of all, I don't think I (and perhaps you) have enough info to say accurately that George Bush is a psychopath. But I think it is entirely possible. If he is, though, by those same measures, Bill Clinton was probably also a psychopath. But to equate these qualities with Republicanism is a leap of large proportions. And to say that it is because they were raised in Republican families is another leap. To say that would be to say that these aberations represent traditional republican principles, and they do not. Ron Paul was raised as a Republican. He exhibits the opposite of these (psychopathic) qualities. And he supports traditional Republican principles. These other guys promote the mantra that "everything changed since 911" (a relatively new philosophy). Should you gather evidence to suggest that a large number of Republicans in power exhibit psychopathic qualities, perhaps you might more accurately theorize that psychopaths tend to gravitate towards positions of power. And right now, the Republicans happen to control the executive department. But I predict if a Democratic president is elected, the balance will change. You will find many more Democrats exhibiting "psychopathic qualities". (Though I use that term lightly...maybe even tongue in cheek.) We will have this problem as long as we are a nation of sheep, who accepts the kind of behavior we have seen in our recent presidents, without getting rid of them...and as long as we accept unquestioningly the point of view portrayed by the media. As long as we accept government as benign, and do not fufill our responsibility to limit their power, we will have some people gravitating towards positions of power who exhibit the qualities you have referred to. by Cathy K. (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 7 comments) on Wednesday, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:16:29 AM
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Bizzare
Thanks, Cathy. I'm glad you recognized that the article is bizzare, since the article must match the bizzare subject matter. Any description of the bizzare Bush administration will inevitably be bizzare. Can't be helped. The first descriptions of the dinosaurs were unbelievably bizzare. But, that did not lessen the fact that dinosaurs existed, just as the bizzare Bush administration exists. Having George Bush as president is as bizzare as having a Tyrannosaurus Rex as president. It's literally unbelievable that we have come to this level of political ineptitude. Ed. by Ed Martin (139 articles, 0 quicklinks, 35 diaries, 173 comments [4 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Wednesday, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:54:27 AM
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psyco
verrrry interesting. got my attention quite absolutely by vin agamenone (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 20 comments) on Wednesday, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:09:25 PM
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Psychopathic President
Thanks for the article, Ed. I have known for years that George W. Bush was a sociopath/psychopath. I know three sociopaths personally, one dead and two still living (as far as I know). Two are/were family and one was a "friend."
by Bob Trowbridge (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 70 comments [1 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Wednesday, Apr 30, 2008 at 1:17:36 PM
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You're right
You're right, Bob. Its people with spectacular, monumental inadequacies who seek positions of power to compensate. You and I, being normal, don't have those inadequacies and have no need to prove otherwise. I have some inadequacies, such as procrastinating paying the bills and mowing the lawn. That's about all. And, that's why I have no desire or need to be president. I've already proved myself to myself, adequately. I'm satisfied with myself, know who I am and do not need to belittle and humiliate other people to make myself feel that I'm better than they are. Other people cannot give you a sense of self worth. Only you can do that. Descartes said that the test of a person's courage was to go to your room. And, that room he was talking about didn't have a TV to use as a substitute for yourself. You were there, all alone with only yourself to contend with. That's why most people can't do it. Ed. by Ed Martin (139 articles, 0 quicklinks, 35 diaries, 173 comments [4 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Wednesday, Apr 30, 2008 at 1:48:44 PM
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Two psychopaths for the price of one
I often observe, quite in stunned silence, (I realized ranting does no good), the man-child George Bush stumbling from one bumbling to another, and ponder the stark, debilitating delusions that he suffers. With an obvious, sickening lack of grasp, he seems yet able to maintain a core support among the diehards.
by Michael McCoy (7 articles, 1 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 487 comments [26 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Wednesday, Apr 30, 2008 at 1:53:19 PM
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