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In reply to the discussion: How the hell can Republicans so blindly follow and worship this criminal monster? [View all]MrsCoffee
(5,803 posts)46. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Most of the people he surrounds himself with were already corrupt. Those that weren't were given enough power (or the illusion of power) to diminish their moral sense.
It's not always just about the money. Some people thrive on power. Especially if that power gives them the ability to make life hell for others.
The Stanford prison experiments and Milgram's obedience study show some pretty dark sides of human nature.
Milgram surveyed other psychologists before he ran the experiments, and his consulting group guessed about a tenth of one per cent (.125) of subjects (only sadists and psychopaths) would max out the voltage before refusing. Instead, 65 per cent of subjects hit the 450 volt button labelled XXX instead of lethal in the final model three times before Milgram cut them off.
In an interview for 60 Minutes in 1979, Milgram told the host Morley Safer:
I would say, on the basis of having observed a thousand people in the experiment and having my own intuition shaped and informed by these experiments, that if a system of death camps were set up in the United States of the sort we had seen in Nazi Germany, one would be able to find sufficient personnel for these camps in any medium-sized American town.
https://aeon.co/essays/is-it-time-to-stop-doing-any-more-milgram-experiments
In an interview for 60 Minutes in 1979, Milgram told the host Morley Safer:
I would say, on the basis of having observed a thousand people in the experiment and having my own intuition shaped and informed by these experiments, that if a system of death camps were set up in the United States of the sort we had seen in Nazi Germany, one would be able to find sufficient personnel for these camps in any medium-sized American town.
https://aeon.co/essays/is-it-time-to-stop-doing-any-more-milgram-experiments
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How the hell can Republicans so blindly follow and worship this criminal monster? [View all]
Kablooie
Feb 2019
OP
You'd probably find that most are deep down scammers and cheats, honoring their master of fraud.
TheBlackAdder
Mar 2019
#27
+1, "promised something of great value. " They were promised some sort of normality they're used to
uponit7771
Mar 2019
#13
Yeah, that is really something, William Kristol on our side. Trump, is a master manipulator and
RKP5637
Feb 2019
#8
Someone on the news tonight said it is like wanting to be one of the cool kids
BigmanPigman
Feb 2019
#5
It's more like getting snared by a cult or a pyramid scheme. Big promises and then you're invested
The Wielding Truth
Mar 2019
#18
Much as with religion, why do some blindly follow religion, for example. It's a textbook case of
RKP5637
Feb 2019
#7
He won and appointed the judges they like and signed the tax giveaway they wanted.
Trenzalore
Mar 2019
#19
A criminal monster is what they've been praying for for President since Kennedy defeated Nixon
Aristus
Mar 2019
#34
look at the number of federal judges being appoint for LIFE, that was ALWAYS the play
beachbum bob
Mar 2019
#51
I really don't care, do you? It's not like they are salvagable, so why try to explain them?
GrannyW
Mar 2019
#72
hundreds of batshit crazy conservative federal judges being appointed for LIFE....thats why
beachbum bob
Mar 2019
#78
How the hell could some self-identified progressives NOT vote for the Democratic nominee in 2016,
still_one
Mar 2019
#80