How many here at DU are tired of both Trump and Cruz?

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6. In print they are hilarious.

I have this theory that Cluster B personality disorders are the source of all the world's ills, and they run the Republican Party from top to bottom. We are lucky that we've been able to corral most of them in just one party. If we could push them all out of the workplace and into politics and Hollywood, the world would change overnight.

The Cluster Bs are easier to spot in print, where one can analyze what they said instead of being distracted by how charmingly they said it.

What they all have in common is a persistent lack of empathy. They view others (especially their followers) as less-than-human and cannot ascribe human emotions to them. Sociopaths, of course, don't even have emotions except the reptilian ones like anger and hatred and vengeance and sadism.

That lack of empathy shows up in print all the time, and if one can forget the tragic future in which such people will set the world aflame if they get close enough to steal it, it's one continuous episode of Eastbound and Down, where emotionally tone-deaf assholes scheme for themselves and nobody else, all day long, day after day, year after year.

Like a barrel full of shit-covered rats, scurrying over each other to get a glimpse of daylight.

That's their "policy," just an endless series of schemes to fuck each other over and get to the top. They've always been like this and, if we can keep policing our own party as well as we have, we'll be able to enjoy watching them squirm.

But the damned rats are always finding a way out of the barrel.