Psychopaths Are Never “Dictated By Fact Checkers.”

“Half a century ago Herve Cleckly and Robert Lindner warned us that our failure to acknowledge the psychopaths among us had already triggered a social crisis. Our social institutions, our schools, courts, mental health clinics confront the crisis everyday in a thousand ways and the blindfold against the reality of psychopathy is still in place.” Without Conscience by Dr. Robert Hare



This is the crux of the problems in this country, yet very little is being said about it. I have been and will continue to speak up about it.


 Why would the Republicans say they will not be dictated by fact checkers? Because they know they are lying or getting ready to.
They are invoking the hatred of facts or science in their target audience. Psychopaths lie even when they know at least some of the people know they are lying. It’s part of their persona creating, it’s part of their manipulations, it’s part of using people for their own agenda. The lies are directed at a particular audience and they aren’t those who check facts. The hoards of people who don’t seek the truth are at the center of the problems in this country. Citizens who read, think and know how to choose knowledgeable writers who diligently search for the truth and do their best to present their resources are not the intended audience for the lies and psychopaths don’t care that this group knows they are lying.

“Psychopaths invest a lot of mental energy in identifying and manipulating their victims, but they don’t spend much energy trying to uphold a mask for those with little utility to them. The return on investment is just not there for them. Individuals who are ignored can therefore be in a good position to watch psychopathic individuals manipulate others.” Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work by Paul Babiak, Robert D. Hare

These political criminals are targeting the masses who use TV like a drug. Authoritarians are conditioned to believe lies and wander about repeating them like a zombie requesting brains. The skills to think logically and do one’s own research for a huge number of our population is nonexistent. No amount of information or evidence to counteract those most popular lines of untruth they repeat over and over will change them. Truth, science and information are like Kryptonite to them. Dominionists and political criminals who may also want to create a theocrisy have convinced them that the truth is a lie and science is one continuous conspiracy planned by those liberals who hold education and knowledge in high esteem. I have called them since I was a child the “We’s ignorant and we’s proud of it” people. They are not a new phenomenon.

The corrupt government has helped cause this. Our government agencies, USDA and FDA have used lies disguised as science to get the public to buy unhealthy food so corporations can make huge profits while making us ill. The FDA has used lies to help the drug companies make profits while allowing them to harm or even kill people knowingly. Over decades of thinking we are being told the truth and then finding out we were being lied to over a long period of time people just don’t know what to believe. Who among us can say we don’t understand this? People are conditioned to operate in an Orwellian world where lies are accepted as truth and those who point this out (whistleblowers) are targeted.

The Republican Party due to it being first in line to be owned by the ultra wealthy and corporations, along with the religious right whose leaders are often psychopaths has attracted those types who like to use systems and people for their own ends. Both corporate and political psychopaths have been having a field day. Psychopaths are skilled at zeroing in on personality flaws or characteristics and using them to destroy people or manipulate them to do a particular thing. Working together they have figured out how to do this en masse. Their victims have become trained R monkeys who simply support any R candidate and automatically vote for an R. They will do this in spite of the very true facts that the candidates they support will make their lives much more difficult such as getting a job, send their children to decent schools, keeping their civil rights, buying food, and getting health care. This is a frustrating and disheartening problem. It grieves me that a huge number of these people are from my generation, those who benefited from the great post WWII economy, great schools, fabulous infrastructure, plenty to eat, jobs galore and college was within reach of anyone who had the desire to work hard to accomplish that goal.

I realize there are Ds who also have these qualities and will never be able to see that President Obama has increased injustice and decreased our civil liberties. The fact that a half black man has not been outspoken about the hoards of people incarcerated unjustly, with large numbers of them being black and in the most inhumane of conditions isn’t to be discussed by the polititians, even the left is in denial for the most part…shhhhh.

There is a huge difference between the Rs and Ds that has made one group very dangerous. The energy and passion on the right to follow lies unquestioningly is a phenomenon. After watching and studying them I have come to realize their level of energy is fueled by hate which is born of fear facilitated by ignorance. They hate anyone who does not believe the crazy lies from the right, they are afraid someone with brown or black skin might get something they want or can‘t have. A huge number of them are bullies who will threaten, intentionally harm, spread malicious gossip, and sabotage those who they consider their enemies which can include a person who simply does not agree with them. The bullying technique of spreading malicious gossip is really identical to taking in the right wing lies and spreading them. The purpose is often the same, to demonize a person or a group of people.

The news media has been discussing the fact that Paul Ryan lies profusely. Many will still continue to believe his lies in spite of having it pointed out to them. They don’t want to know, they want an authoritarian figure that tells them what to do. It is the only way they feel comfortable in the world. The world has seen large numbers of authoritarians in a country following a psychopathic leader in the past and it turned into a horror story for millions.

I am horrified to find the hate that traumatized my childhood because I had to listen to it often is still festering widely. All one has to do is look at the number of minorities who are incarcerated and how the inmates in this country are treated to know this truth. Racism fueled by fear is what the anger towards illegal immigrants is about. The anger stays quieter during times of prosperity, but when groups are competing for jobs many look for someone to blame. They use the frustrations and anger about the economy to manipulate whites. Directing them to view minorities as the problem when in large numbers they have had poor job prospects and economic hardships for decades. Ignorance allows those poor and middle class whites to simply grab that very simple thought that particular races caused their problems. They will never see that a complex mix of changes in legislation, corrupt corporations and corrupt politicians along with some particularly deranged economists got us where we are. They are a lost cause.
    



"All Psychopaths are Narcissists, but not all Narcissists are Psychopaths" Dr. Robert Hare and others

Many people have discussed Sarah Palin as a narcissist. Because we have had so many movies that portray psychopaths as almost mythical supernatural characters most people have no idea they are actually everywhere and not easily identified. Over the past few decades our country has been harmed by psychopaths in politics, corporations, the judicial systems, our regulatory agencies and religion who are using our resources to satisfy their selfish greed and sick agendas. We have to understand this to fix our problems.

It is very difficult to differentiate between a narcissist and a psychopath. One of the keys to telling the difference is to remember they have very different thinking processes going on in their psyches, but manifest some similar characteristics. The narcissist has a conscience, feels normal emotions and may be a person in a lot of emotional pain, even though some of them inflict a lot of damage on others. Some narcissists can also offer something positive to society. Life would not be as entertaining without comedians and actors who are narcissists trying to get attention. The psychopath has no conscience nor normal emotions. Psychopaths and narcissists have widely differing intentions that manifest in similar behaviors.

When all the new research began to be published about psychopaths I was not interested in it at first. I thought, what is there to know as I thought they were very obvious. I was wrong about that, the more clever psychopaths are not obvious at all, even to experts on psychopathy. Some have become politicians, religious leaders, CEOs and have taken other positions of power. As a country we have not been able to see behind their masks and have large numbers of people who are taken in by psychopathic politicians. The unsuccessful, not too bright ones get caught, but many are clever enough to fly under the radar of law enforcement. Look at Sarah Palin’s use of shyster lawyers at the Department of Law (attorney general’s office) and some in private practice to manipulate the law, intimidate and threaten people, or reinterpret laws to protect her. This allowed her to do illegal or unethical acts without consequences. Psychopathic politicians have networks, sycophants, financial backing, and advisers to a very alarming extent. They are charming, charismatic and tell people what they know they want to hear to win their support.

Sarah Palin is not as stupid as she appears. The intelligence of a psychopath is used for manipulation, fakery and game playing. They do what they enjoy. They do not like to do the drudgery of working to get experience or education, that is boring to them. Instead they use a cheating strategy. Having average to high intelligence allows them to navigate among the population as subcriminal psychopaths. Like I have discussed in the past with regard to workplace bully type psychopaths, rather than expertise at the job they are doing their skill lies in mimicking a competent employee to get what they want, so they undermine the real work and the real workers. Then when people who know they are incompetent and harmful start to balk they go after them. Psychopaths who are incarcerated are not necessarily the cleverest, most successful psychopaths. Just like most people I mistook psychopaths in my personal life for narcissists (Narcissistic Personality Disorder) for a long time. I even made excuses to myself for them.
Sarah Palin has a mental health problem, yes, but it is not what everyone thinks. Psychopathy is not considered a mental illness. The peculiarities about the speech of psychopaths and their inability to remember the massive lies they tell, along with the way they try to fake they are experts (such as a foreign policy expert) and make lots of odd mistakes make them look like they have a mental illness or dementia.

Keep in mind: “It is well known that psychopaths often convincingly malinger, fake mental illness, when it is to their advantage to do so”, From Without Conscience by Dr. Robert Hare.

Narcissists have deep feelings of inadequacy and are looking for attention or an adoring audience to make themselves feel more adequate, loved, or important. I am in no way saying Sally Field is a narcissist with this next video, she has many positive qualities and I know nothing about her other than she is an actor. It is just that this video demonstrates the inner motivation of a narcissist.



Psychopaths think they are fabulously wonderful the way they are…no, they don‘t think it, they know it as this character Jim Carey played demonstrates.



Dr. Paul Babiak describes the differentiation between Narcissism and Psychopathy in an article he wrote for the ezine, Business Coaching Worldwide:
Psychopathy vs. Narcissism: Two Personality Disorders Often Confused

Both psychopaths and narcissists, unfortunately, come across as self-absorbed, arrogant
and insensitive—making differentiation difficult. However, there are some clues to the difference that the coach can look for.

 Anyone can use this information to help identify a psychopath in their life or to avoid voting for one.

The Psychopath
The most obvious traits of the psychopath are charisma, charm and a grandiose sense of self-worth, all somewhat positive traits. Many people actually like and are attracted to psychopaths whom they have just met, only to discover conning, manipulation and deceit—the dark side of this disorder—down the line. Unfortunately, in business coaching situations, it is quite common to find a blend of these traits among executive clients—in the form of self-confidence, assertiveness and influence skills—and to misinterpret them.

The Narcissist
Narcissism is a personality disorder, one of ten documented in the psychological literature. [The new DSM5 will have six personality disorders] The common understanding is that narcissists are 'in love with' themselves and see the world as revolving around their thoughts and needs. To narcissists, the world is their audience, and everyone they meet—and everything that happens—is centered on them. Thus, we describe narcissists as self-centered, selfish, demanding and self-absorbed; yet, they can also be quite charming as well, having learned how to please their audience. True narcissists make up only about one percent of the general population—the same base rate as psychopaths. They are drawn to careers that allow them to receive the attention and power they crave, and to exert influence over others, reinforcing their perceived self-importance, the same as the psychopath; hence, it is not surprising to find a large number of both drawn to executive-level jobs.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Clarifying Muddy Waters
How is the business coach to avoid the confusion? If you suspect your client has psychopathic tendencies, look for other signals. To separate the narcissist from the psychopath, one must go further into the traits and characteristics that they do not share. Of the 20 psychopathic traits and characteristics of the psychopath, those that can be gleaned in the context of a normal coaching session include:

Pathological lying:
Psychopaths can and will lie about many things, even those things you or I would not waste time lying about. Lying can often be uncovered through the many inconsistencies in their 'story' as it evolves over the course of a coaching engagement. If you tape record your sessions, try to follow their patter as it twists and turns in response to your questions and challenges. At some point, it no longer sounds like resistance, but rather game playing. While the psychopath will talk a good game about integrity and honesty, his or her behaviors will speak of pathological lying.

Emotional poverty: Psychopaths are unable to feel, express or even understand normal human emotions (there is physiological evidence supporting this). Thus, they will be unable to express the range of emotions (except anger and rage) you would find in others. Even though some successful psychopaths can mimic some emotion, they do not do a good job of it. Many display a very flat affect while describing events that others would be hard-pressed to discuss without some emotional display. Or, they will overact the emotion, going beyond what is 'normal' for any given emotional situation. Look for remorse and empathy; you won't find them in the psychopath. They are cold inside and have no conscience as we understand it.

Blaming others:
This is a very common trait that becomes more evident as sessions go on. While most clients who blame others for their difficulties will eventually 'get over it' and take responsibility for their own actions, psychopaths will not. (Note: If they seem to, watch out for the lying and manipulation as noted above.)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
True narcissists are more problematic, as helping them often involves delving deeper into the psyche. Underneath the bravado and attention-seeking, they are not all that self-confident or sure of themselves. Rather, they suffer with intense feelings of inadequacy with which their audience helps them cope. Because lack of self-confidence is not often a trait of successful executives, it is imperative that these feelings be hidden from peers, subordinates and coaches. The narcissist will find negative feedback demoralizing and exhibit emotional responses based upon the perceived challenges to his or her personality. Much coaching work will revolve around helping the narcissist resolve internal conflicts and regain the approval of his or her 'audience.'

The psychopath, on the other hand, while similar in appearance to the narcissist on the surface, is not plagued by such unconscious dynamics. Rather, psychopaths do not need an audience. They are, for all intents and purposes, their own audience. Seeking and demanding power and attention is not driven by a need for reassurance, but by a means to manipulate those in the surroundings; they are consummate game players. The psychopath takes the floor and arrogantly demands respect as a way to manipulate others.

Emphasis added by myself.