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It seems like every time we have a Democratic president and a Republican house of congress, we have a Republican manufactured debt ceiling crisis in which they threaten destroy the world’s economy. Why is that?
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During the past couple of weeks I came face-to-face with the destructiveness of dark tetrad personality characteristics both in my personal life and in the SOTUS. The behavior of House Republicans makes a stark illustration of just how impossible large gatherings of personality disorders make cooperation and achieving goals. Craven self interest will be the downfall of human kind.
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As cultural multilevel selection predicts, declining cooperation and increasing distrust and dissatisfaction precedes social collapse, but it also sets the stage for the inner authoritarian of all the snowflakes to meltdown and grab our democracy by the pussy.
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We know they’re lying. They know they’re lying. We know it will hurt people, even kill them. They know it will hurt people, even kill them. Yet, they lie anyway. How can that be?
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The main reason mass shootings are a unique American problem is because Ted Cruz and Greg Abbott and all of the pro-death, misery, and injury politicians in the GQP have been bought and paid for by the merchants of death. The dark tetrad explains why
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The conservative members of our society are being very destructive in their response to the pandemic and promotion of racist conservative social issues. Is it the case that people with dark tetrad personalities are drawn to conservative politics?
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How to explain the debacle that is the Senate? One piece of it is found in the dark tetrad personalities of Manchin and Sinema. We spend some time exploring them. Let me know what you think!
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We are seeing more violence perpetrated by MAGA Nation as the #COVID19 pandemic crisis worsens and the GQP psychopathic leadership and mass media extorts them with more extreme rhetoric. It is all just so depressingly predictable.
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I found this fantastic article determining that a light triad of personality traits stand in opposition to the dark triad. And, that’s only the beginning of their fascinating findings…
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Man, you’re going to want to read this one even if it is TL;DR. We’ve hit the treasure trove of authoritarian qualities and characteristics that explains a lot of the cray-cray we’re seeing across the country.
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How do you know if you’re having an existential crisis? Well, if you have to ask, you probably are. So, take this “quiz!” It won’t help you clarify anything, but it may cheer you up some!
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We’ve had so many police shootings of Black people since the Chauvin trial started it is almost like the police are acting out! Since Chauvin clearly was a psychopath, it got me wondering just how many of the police murders we witness are caused by psychopaths. We take a deep dive into psychopathy to find out.
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Politico is shocked to realize that Trump’s narcissism and executive dysfunction continue to dog him even after he’s left office.
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What do your yard signs and other household decorations say about your personality? Why a great deal, I’d wager, if you can be a good snooper using Sam Gosling’s Snoopology method of personality interpretation! Come on and join the fun!
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If you are as worried sick as I am about the fate of our democracy, then you’ll want to read my review of Masha Gessen’s 2016 article, Autocracy: Rules for Survival that was published in The New York Review of Books. When we compare her six rules to the sorry state of affairs, real despair sets in. It’s like watching one of those slasher horror films, you know what’s going to happen and there’s absolutely nothing you can do to stop it. Even though the character is being extremely stupid and doing stuff no one would ever do outside of a movie, you still gotta sit there and watch it.
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In my continuing series on the psychology behind each of the major candidate’s campaigns, here is the Bernie Sanders edition.
Sanders is predominately affected by the dynamics around an authoritarian personality. That is how it affects his view of the world and how it affects his supporters.
What the fuck is wrong with Mitch McConnell? Why is he so anti-American? Why is working against the Constitution? Why is he destroying the Senate? What the actual fuck?
Are there really so many truly evil, selfish, authoritarian people in America? Why are so many of us willing to go along with the New Cruelty and celebrate the deaths of children? Groupthink and authoritarian personality goes along way to explaining this cultural phenomenon.
Recently, Cindy Hyde-Smith, Republican candidate for Senate from Mississippi stepped in a wee cow paddy not once, not twice, but three times! First came the lynching comment, which she tried to brush off as a joke. Then the whole I put out a statement yesterday, and I stand […]
The gaslighting emanating from the Ol’ Pussy Grabber’s ass has really taken all of the oxygen out of the room making it nearly impossible for any of us to remain and for those few who do remain to do anything at all for all the choking, gagging, tearing […]
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