Corporate Psychopathy

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[benzodiazapines]

Our health system is the least efficient, least effective, most profitable system in the world.

[Umberto2]

Joe Lieberman is a complete psychopath; there's no doubt about it Thom. The latest line is that he's doing what he's doing to get back at the liberal blogosphere community and other prominent progressives like Anthony Weiner and Howard Dean. He's deliberately trying to piss people off rather than do what's best for the country. The man needs to be punished by the Democratic Party, which is an increasingly pitiful entity in itself.

[srdtpa]

@LordBifford This is not necessarily true. Poor self-control may be present only in psychopaths who were arrested. PCL-R was developed with offender populations. Prisoners who are not psychopaths also show poor self-control... Perhaps there is an entire kind of psychopaths that do not technically break the law, are tolerated by society, but do not feel empathy and remorse.

[LordBifford]

I think politicians are less likely than CEOs to be psychopaths, because they are under too much scrutiny. We're not talking about little office gossip rings. We're talking about large, well-funded and methodical efforts by the media and rivals to dig up any dirt they can on a politician. Psychopaths have poor self-control, and thus tend to have too many skeletons in their closet to hide. No amount of brilliant bullshitting can prevent them from eventually being discovered.

[srdtpa]

politics attracts white-collar psychopaths worldwide.

[zthetha]

Great stuff! As a Brit I have been appalled at the obscene corruption in all areas of US government. Perhaps it's easier to see when you're not stuck in the middle of it. Cautionary note: American courts have the stars and stripes flag edged in gold. Do you realize what this signifies? It's called the Law of the Flag - a mercantile, maritime maneuver that puts the courts in private hands and, I believe, outside the jurisdiction of the USA.

[edwardsson777]

As the video "freedom from conscience - psychopaths" makes clear, the trais that are associated with psychopaths for some reason are popular with the masses. It is as if everyone wants to be seduced by these people.

[aurasoma111]

there should be a checklist for politicians, for psychopathy

[aurasoma111]

the US needs to fix it's homeland affairs,forget bush's policies,he was warmonger after oil..anyway,,,Wallstreet & those in positions of power including politicians can be psychopathic,look at the parties & commissions being collected on high risk investments & hedge funds before the GFC, narcissistic psychopathic behavior that was congratulated,yes,with backhanders & payoffs & the government needs to regulate the market to avoid further disasters ,there needs to be a duty of care to the public

[ladybluluv]

Oh yeah, it runs rampant there in the corporate world

[TheeUnidentified]

"The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominant political mythology." - Michael Parenti