A favorite subject on DU - where does this evil come from. Just found

[peacetalksforall]

this web site. Perhaps it's all been discussed before. Ignore if a repeat. But, I found some good insight and the people operating the site seem to have some good intentions about the people on this planet.

New for me - "Political Ponerology".

This is a review of a book by a Polish author about psychopaths and it relates to politics because ... well read these two parapgraphs and there is more on the site:

"Lignotas nulla curatio morbid -- do not attempt to cure what you do not understand -- is the opening theme in this study of evil. Political Ponerology is “a science on the nature of of evil adjusted for political purposes.” The author, Andrzej Lobaczewski, describes himself as a Polish psychologist who — with many other colleagues — found meaning living through Nazism and then Communism by studying how evil happens and triumphs in a wider political and economic system.

Lobaczewski’s hypothesis is that a small percentage of humans are born psychopaths. He describes the research to back up that data that was destroyed and suppressed. Another minority percentage are of a nature to go along with psychopaths while the vast majority of people are essentially healthy. The majority who are healthy have a difficult time understanding that some people are not — they can not fathom being a psychopath or acting like one."

More here -

http://www.solari.com/news/announcements/01-17-07/

[ClassWarrior]

1. Sounds like hard-core variants of the authoritarians...

...that John Dean describes in "Conservatives Without Conscience."

NGU.

[DCKit]

2. An excellent website about psychopathic behaviors

Been there, never understood. Always felt like the helpless victim. Now I take shit from no-one.

http://www.bullyonline.org/

[Bitwit1234]

3. Some guy did a ten year survey

He found most republicans were psychotics. He based this on interviews and actions. He said the reason this was so is psychotics gravetated to the republican party because they felt the republican views mirrored their own psychotic ones. Ten years to find that out.

[Der Blaue Engel]

4. I think you probably mean "most psychotics were Republicans"

As much as I have a seething disgust for the Republican party and cannot fathom why anyone sane would still align themselves with it, I have a hard time believing that all Republicans are psychotics.