All of them. Pass a psych exam, or you don't take public office!
Blagojevich pretty much demonstrates why, as Randi Rhodes is discussing today - Blago's a narcissist. He thinks he's perfect. He thinks's he's special, and that he's entitled. He thinks that the entire state he governs would fall apart except for him, and that the law should not apply to him. It's classic compensation for a person who internally has zero self-esteem and thinks he's a bad person. Maybe that's because he IS a bad person.
Bush is the same way - total narcissist, with a heaping helping of sociopath. He thinks he's superhuman, that he's entitled, and that he doesn't have to answer to anyone. His mind has been twisted over the years due to his daddy issues and his years of drinking that he's built this narcissistic shell so he can pretend to be better than the rest of us. And what's the result of his rule? At least 1.2 million dead in Iraq, thousands of dead U.S. troops, a monumentally clusterfucked economy, millions driven into poverty.
History is full of narcissistic and sociopathic assholes weaseling themselves into power and destroying lives by the millions just to satiate their twisted cravings.
And what's really disgusting is not just the narcissists themselves, but the people they surround themselves with. Classic right-wing-authoritarian followers (using the term "right-wing authoritarian" in the way that Bob Altemeyer uses it. Read Conservatives Without Conscience or
The Authoritarians to learn...) In other words, sycophants and fellow narcissists, who make themselves feel important because they're close to a person in power. They build this shared fantasy of themselves being the only ones worthy of power, and the ones deserving of all the rewards, and they're willing to do absolutely anything to stay on top. Actual issues of governance take a back seat, so the rest of us get screwed.
We've been dealing with them in the White House for eight years. They've clearly demonstrated themselves to be a cancer upon our country, and poison to our political discourse.
So I suggest that we revise the Constitution to require all people elected to public office to take a psychiatric exam. A sophisticated one, designed to resist attempts by narcissists and sociopaths to slip through. And the rule should be simple - if the exam shows you have a narcissistic or antisocial-spectrum personality disorder, you're disqualified. No ifs, ands or buts, you don't take the office. I don't care how many votes you got.
I don't care if it violates their rights. Because I'm sick of dealing with these diseased twisted fucks. They don't have empathy. They don't feel remorse. They don't have a sense of shame. They refuse to identify with us, they dehumanize us, and their actions reflect that. They are human garbage. Fuck them. If they dehumanize us, I'll dehumanize them.
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