Thom Hartmann: Have the psychopaths taken over America?

[thomhartmann]

Run time: 07:12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmUlFz-cSJA   Posted on YouTube: September 23, 2011 By YouTube Member: TheBigPictureRT Views on YouTube: 200   Posted on DU: September 23, 2011 By DU Member: thomhartmann Views on DU: 3208

 
So In the aftermath of Troy Davis's execution - it's time for the United States to do some soul searching. Every nation is in constant change - as Grace Slick said, "Life is change" - and our culture changed for the more compassionate and better with the New Deal, and changed again for the more brutal and selfish with the Reagan Revolution. So what's next? Will we become a nation of people who genuinely care for each other, and builds institutions to respect and help each other - or a brutal, libertarian nation where it's "every man for himself," the country is run by psychopaths, and as Ron Paul implied, we're all free to die like dogs in the gutter? The choice is ours - and the coming election will have a lot to do with determining that future.

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[90-percent]

1. My answer

Our institutions are infested with greedy and corrupt SOCIOPATHS.

-90% Jimmy

[Yon_Yonson]

4. My sentiments exactly

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Enthusiast]

7. Like these.

[vets74]

13. Uh... my sig line....

[avaistheone1]

2. It's a sensible explanation of how things have gone so far amuck.

k&r

:kick:

[CHOCOLATMIMOSA]

3. He speaks of the horrors of Alfred Hitchcock, with the calm of Mr. Rogers

what a contrast

[certainot]

5. it's a common disease called sex on the wrong brain that most of us have- the repubs just have

it worse....

http://youtu.be/HnrfuTUlqVs

[Enthusiast]

6. This is why I'm a Thom Hartmann fan.

This is a good and wise man. I wish our society had leaders open minded and objective enough to listen to him.(before it's too late)

[classof56]

8. Thank you, Thom.

Your intellect and ability to articulate the truth are rare indeed. Keep doing what you're doing. The nation is better because of you.

Blessings.

[Larry Ogg]

9. Psychopaths rule the world...

And it's as plane as day once you've studied the research, and know what to look for.

But you also have to understand how normal people interact with psychopaths in order to understand how much trouble the human race is really in.

Who hasn't heard the old sayings that: "All politicians are liars," "all politicians are crooks," and then for some magical very well understood reasons..., people support, idealize, and vote for the lesser evil.

If the majority of the population would take the time to read a few books on the subject, these liars and crooks would be behind bars where they belong, and not running the government, corporations, religion, or media. And they would not be in the positions to destroy the lives of hundreds of millions of people with with absolute impunity.

[elleng]

10. Both psychopaths and sociopaths.

We're in real trouble.

[Larry Ogg]

11. You're right to separate the two...

Most people think psychopath and sociopath are synonymous, when in fact there are some important differences.

[elleng]

12. Yes, off the top of my head, and maybe most dangerous for society,

sociopaths are continually among us, 'some' of us married to them, some work with them, some VOTE for them; psychopaths not so much.

[Overseas]

14. Sad K&R. Never thought I'd see such cruelty become so acceptable.

[fascisthunter]

15. I've Been Saying this here at DU for a long Time

we have sociopaths and psychopaths waging a war on the rest of us Americans and the world as a whole. We need to rid ourselves of them.

THIS is the topic we should be talking of, because I believe it is at the root of all our evils today.