America has an Affinity for Politicians with Sociopathic Tendencies.
If you place the phrase “Sociopathic tendencies” in a basic search, you get a list like the following:
-Impulsiveness
-Compulsive Lying
-Manipulation
-Irresponsibility
-Aggression
-Lack of Empathy
-Ignoring Right and Wrong
-Lack of remorse
-Charm
Americans love someone who comes across as charming; especially if you all exist in the same echo chamber. A person can be a complete and utter liar, but as long as they spout pretty words that amplify their fears, yet support their cloistered way of life, then they are satisfied.
Why Are Americans so easily fooled?
If the duck is quacking, and the duck is flapping its wings and the duck is parading around on their webbed feet, then maybe, just maybe, it’s a goddamn duck.
It’s even worse if that duck has a famous name.
George W. Bush. He was a duck if there ever was one. His charm covered up the deepest well of ineptitude imaginable until number 45 was elected. He tanked everything that he touched, prior to his presidency, but because he was charming and dumb…
