The GOP is one of the most dire threats this country has ever faced

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15. [SOCIOPATHS] You are right... I've felt the same way, too, for a long time...

I'd come to believe that there are in fact a high proportion of sociopaths in the society. I'd read somewhere that it is something like 1 in 100 or something.

My fear has been that the GOP is simply a place where they gather together and work together to meet their innately selfish needs and drives.

Similarly, I'd known people who would choose to be an "Independent"... as opposed to a Democrat or GOP. They were basically as selfish as any GOPer, but smart enough to understand that if they actively labelled themselves as GOP they would be totally ostricized/cut-off by most of the people around them.

But when they spoke about the poor or the unemployed... that gave them away. Things were often the fault of the poor... The unemployed deserved to be so because odds are they were lazy and not putting enough into their work...

That it was not fair that they should pay taxes to support a system that could help others.

I'd heard lots of talk like this for years.
They are unrepentant.
Without remorse.
Without shame.

We need to somehow codify in law a collection of laws that make it so that if sociopaths try to violate the people within a society or the broad society as a whole, that their avaricious behavior would trigger immediate penalties --- loss of property up to loss of freedom.

For example: I live overseas. Over here, I just discovered from a friend that if a company makes a person work over some maximum number of hours in a single month (20 hours?.... can't remember), the company is required to report it to the government. Further, if this continues for 3 months, the company is required to send the employee for a health check.

The brilliance of this: without ever directly trying overtly state over and over again that this is meant to curb avaricious or sadistic drives in business leaders, the collection of rules provides enough annoyance and costs to curb (or at least redirect) some of the abuses.

Of course, sociopaths will seek to try to get around even this, but it is an example of the minimum of the kinds of hurdles that should be in place.

PS. While this law is in place, it is no paradise over here, exactly. Some of the things you read about as new phenomena in the US (Krugman: "Onshore Outsourcing, Wages, and Benefits", make sure to read the PDF that Krugman links to as well) has been going on strong over here for decades... an attempt to pay less on salaries as well as pay less on, or even avoid, paying into pensions, healthcare, and the social safety net.

Personally, along with this kind of law should be included a kind of repeat-offenders provision: individual members (direct bosses up the chain) of the organizations that repeatedly violate these laws should then be psychologically evaluated. If they are found to be sociopathic, then they would be prohibited from being placed in any leadership roles that could effect the society (eg. no running companies... no government work... no managing offices... etc...) and placed in psychological care for evaluation to determine when and if they can be released back into the general society.

Anything less than this would be any or all of the following:

* Serving as an apologist for sociopaths and avaricousness.
* An excuse for ones own weakness to actually do anything.
* Active abandonment of one's responsibility to society.

We don't, in the name of free speech, allow people to yell "Fire!" in a theatre.
We understand that the mayhem caused by such an act has a perilous cost to the society and for that reason it is a crime.

We have no excuse to allow avaricious sociopathic acts to go unchallenged on the basis of "freedom".