I'm finally putting the pieces together about this reigning insanity and I don't like what I see.

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49. I was NOT saying that HE is a sociopath. I was saying that those who really have the

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power (the wealthy and their minions) are usually sociopaths, and that when people like Obama run for high office, they mistakenly believe they will be able to have more freedom and to do more good than is the case.

When they finally get into office, they discover how boxed in they really are--and perhaps they are even subjected to "offers they can't refuse"--i.e., threatened by the sociopaths who are willing to commit heinous crimes in order to protect or enlarge their own wealth and power.

My other point was that the people of great wealth and power who really do run things are mostly sociopaths, because to achieve that level of wealth and power is very difficult unless the person is not constrained by such things as decency, conscience, or respect for human values or laws.

The powerful sociopaths I was referring to were people like Murdoch, the Kochs, Adelstein, etc.