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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PiMac who wrote (12957)	7/2/1999 9:17:00 AM
From: Catfish	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13994

PiMac, I invite you to read the following: Toward a Unified Theory of Clinton freerepublic.com I have only posted the last few paragraphs. The article is very long so please click on the link to read the entire article. I have been asked by readers of early drafts of this manuscript, whether there is some sort of inherent, instinctive defense that some people have against the awful, mesmerizing charm of the psychopath -- an instinct such as the one that causes people to "fear snakes and spiders, for instance." I, too, have suspected as much. Both my wife and I manifest what I jokingly call "CRS": Clinton Repulsion (or Revulsion) Syndrome. We noticed it one evening when our hands collided reaching for the remote to mute the television. It first manifested itself long before Clinton was a frontrunner and long before we began discovering his pathological personal life. Since then, I have seen ample evidence that we are not alone. In fact, I would suggest that some significant minority of the American population feels (literally feels, on a visceral level) as we do. About an equal number, apparently, are fully under his spell and would enter the fires of Hell for him. I have written Robert Hare, the foremost living researcher into psychopathy, about my ideas about the way people react to psychopaths. (Not specifically about Clinton but using some notorious examples from the literature.) He seems to agree that my insights have value and ought to be explored. At the core of the "Sun King," William Jefferson Clinton we see hidden in plain sight this intractable pathology, this emptiness and its horrible power. Psychopathy in the world's most powerful leader creates a terrible dilemma for a democracy. The psychopath is not mentally ill or mentally impaired as these terms are meant in the law or the 25th Amendment to the Constitution. But he is, as noted by all the experts, just as dangerous as if he were, perhaps more so. Just as unfit for high office, perhaps more so. Psychopaths do not just blunder blindly into evil; they seek it out. Can the Vice President and the Cabinet remove the elected leader of the nation on the basis of "moral dementia"? Do we really want to re-enact the Caine Mutiny on a national level? Any move to remove this clearly unfit creature from office must, it seems to me, come from the Congress. This route, however, has now all but been foreclosed. A chorus of soft voices has arisen calling for "counseling" for this man who sits at the pinnacle of power -- allegedly suffering merely from some popular form of addiction. This is arrant nonsense. There is no pill, no treatment, no therapy and no exorcism that can "cure" him or those like him. These creatures are profoundly alien. Visitors from a parallel moral universe. They can never interact with ours as anything but soulless predators. Unfortunately, I believe that I have also made my case that the policy chaos and paralysis that Efron described in Clinton and his administration are -- along with his grandiosity, dishonesty, recklessness, unreliability, sexual predation -- symptoms of a profound emotional deficit arising from either true psychopathy or some youthful trauma to his prefrontal cortex. Someday, perhaps, his medical records will solve the mystery. In the meantime, we are governed by an adaptive, charismatic psychopath, a supreme intraspecies predator, armed with mesmerizing powers of seduction -- even mass seduction. A leader with profound emotional, cognitive and moral deficits that paralyze his reason and interfere with the simplest decisions -- and endanger this Nation. freerepublic.com