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Avalux

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5. That's true. Here's my thought....

Reply to Ghost of Huey Long (Reply #4)

Sun Jul 15, 2012, 11:33 AM

Jul 2012

sociopaths simply don't have empathy; they are unable to consider the feelings of others (including animals) or care about how the consequences of their actions may adversely effect others. They simply don't give a shit and do whatever they want.

Those who are brainwashed may be misguided but aren't sociopaths.

That's why I think there has got to be a breaking point among a lot of GOP voters. At one point do the lies and manipulations used to control them go to such an extreme that they wake up and say enough?

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How can you tell a Sociopath from a brainwashed person? [View all] Ghost of Huey Long Jul 2012 OP

I can only guess, but snot Jul 2012 #1

The ones in control are the sociopaths; followers are the brainwashed. Avalux Jul 2012 #2

some followers are sociopaths as well, that is who I am wondering about Ghost of Huey Long Jul 2012 #4

That's true. Here's my thought.... Avalux Jul 2012 #5

Maybe the republican party is comprised of sociopaths and people afraid of the sociopaths Siwsan Jul 2012 #3

I don't know how you could tell at a high level. On a personal level, the hallmark of a sociopath patrice Jul 2012 #6

How much time and energy they spend on politics. athenasatanjesus Jul 2012 #7

Not really a practical experiment, but... JHB Jul 2012 #8

we need to separate them all from their reinforcement mechanism--the corporate media Ghost of Huey Long Jul 2012 #10

Usually the sociopath posts asking how to tell the difference! whistler162 Jul 2012 #9

OK thanks Ghost of Huey Long Jul 2012 #11

See if she weighs the same as a duck slackmaster Jul 2012 #12

Pretty easy JonLP24 Jul 2012 #13

I have had personal experience with people who seem to have no empathy for me in my own family Ghost of Huey Long Jul 2012 #16

please be careful-sociapath is a condition not to be throw about with out a care dembotoz Jul 2012 #14

perhaps related to net worth. . . . n/t annabanana Jul 2012 #15