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Originally Posted by Fiyero
His worshippers behave like sociopaths too.
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Originally Posted by BOS2IAD
Only in your twisted imagination.
Obama is a sociopath, as well as Hillary. You supported both. Then by your own reasoning, that makes you a sociopath
I'm not directly addressing this conversation, as it strictly involves a Fyero-BOS2IAD exchange. But I will say that I doubt most Trump supporters (not necessarily worshipers) are NOT sociopaths. Still, I will agree that his most fervent worshipers who make the media likely have a high proportion of them and I'd certainly say the prevailing atmosphere at the rallies featured in the media are sociopathic.
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Originally Posted by BOS2IAD
Here's an interesting article for you. Yes, it's true that not all CEOs are sociopaths/psychopaths but the article still says this:
During his research, Ronson learned that the about 4 percent of CEOs are psychopaths, which is nearly four times the rate in the general population
I read the article, and it is true that a disproprotionate number of CEOs are sociopaths. My point was that it's not necessary to be a CEO. Good management skills, good people skills, knowing what mix of personalities to have on your officer team, and a good feel for what people are going to want to buy and sell that you can provide in a reasonable time frame are much more necessary than mere forcefulness and cutthroat political skills - at least for the company.
We can debate what's necessary for leadership for a thousand posts back and forth, but the bottom line is that a willful indifference toward the feelings of your employees is certainly not necessary for success as a CEO. Yes, sometimes you have to fire an incompetent or lay off employees, but one should not callous about doing so.
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Originally Posted by NLVgal
His freak out over the dead babies in Syria, his love for his daughter, and a couple of other things lead me to believe that he weighs more heavily on the narcissistic side. For one thing, you can't really hurt a sociopath's feelings, they don't have many of those, except anger, envy, and self pity. Donald gets his feelings hurt all the time and is constantly trying to impress people.
Good point. However, psychopaths tend to be good actors, especially those who make it to a high level. Thus perhaps Trump is just play-acting about feelings. I've seen I believe at least one psychopath in my life, with another two or three possible ones. They can switch their empathy (to the extent they do have it) off and on like a switch, and thus absolutely pros at impression management. Like I said, it's reasonable to argue either side of the issue.
Reich was in a presidential cabinet, what have you done that gives you the right to look down on him?
Looking down on him? No, just voicing my opinion as a U.S. citizen, thanks to Freedom of Speech. You have heard of it, right? Now, go crawl back under your rock, please (see, I can be courteous as well).
Over 2000 of our Military died on his watch, several hundred civilians from his Cruise missile strikes, probably thousands from him backing the overthrow of Assad and Gaddafi. Pretty good for a guy who won the Nobel Peace prize Can Trump do worse? Maybe, but we will have to wait to see.
And the scary part is, he's a Ned Flanders or Gomer Pyle compared to Hillary who is truly a sociopath/psychopath. How'd you like to have THAT in the White House, something right out of a horror movie?
And the scary part is, he's a Ned Flanders or Gomer Pyle compared to Hillary who is truly a sociopath/psychopath. How'd you like to have THAT in the White House, something right out of a horror movie?
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Can Trump do worse? Maybe, but we will have to wait to see.
