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Pathocracy and the Liberal Mind
American Thinker ^ | 13 Mar, 2023 | Philip Ahlrich

Posted on 03/13/2023 7:40:31 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Pathocracy can be defined generally as a condition of government under psychopathic domination, one in which a sufficient number of psychologically defective personalities have organized to subjugate a vulnerable and passive citizenry. Pathocratic systems are not at all uncommon in the world's history, but it is only now that we have developed the language and the methods of analysis by which to identify them. They are known to arise from dogmatic and extreme forms of political ideology, often within well-ordered democratic systems, and evolve rapidly without correction towards hybrid forms of despotism.

After all the destructive conflicts of the 20th century, it would seem impossible that the barren seeds of a collective political psychosis could take root and flourish again in the modern world. But within two years of the Biden presidency, we have become aware of the same deep-running pathology emerging from the psychological bacteria that thrive and multiply in toxic liberal environments. Liberalism has abandoned its original defense of the principle of individual freedom and become one of those degenerative closed systems of thinking and behavior that allow for the accumulation of pathogenic material within them.

The liberal mind is highly susceptible to pathogenic suggestion. It is the last and perhaps most dangerous of the unlit caverns remaining to science regarding the psychology of radical conformist movements that contribute to the ideological colonization and overthrow of democratic systems. An organized search of its vast holding of intellectual deformities will yield countless volumes in the study of intelligence gone wrong. The liberal mind is Jung's concept of a "collective unconscious" presenting to the world, in its unrestrained egotism and denial of psychological reality, the troubled mind of a psychopath.

Regardless of the strong or weak potential for evil in psychopathic personalities, all psychopaths are deceivers who must lie to...

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: leftism

1 posted on 03/13/2023 7:40:31 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

An interesting article and important points to understand.


2 posted on 03/13/2023 7:40:47 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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“An interesting article and important points to understand”.

Thanks for posting this.


3 posted on 03/13/2023 7:48:35 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: MtnClimber

The last line of the piece is a warning you cannot bargain with evil.

Patriots must defeat and destroy these tyrants. You cannot meet the Devil half way. Half way to evil is still evil.

There is no living peacefully with the enemies of liberty now in charge in America.


4 posted on 03/13/2023 7:51:49 AM PDT by Gnome1949
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To: MtnClimber

“Conservatives may own the stronger argument, but liberals own the media.”

The author states many truths in this piece.


5 posted on 03/13/2023 8:00:03 AM PDT by goodnesswins (The Chinese are teaching calculus to their 3rd graders wh to sile ours are trying to pick a pronoun.)
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To: MtnClimber
Pathocracies were difficult to build due throughout history due to the relatively small portion of the population that are sociopaths, and even smaller portion of those sociopaths who could run an operation. While they had a lot of followers who'd support them, it takes a special kind of sociopath to pull it off.

In our modern world with travel and the closing of mental institutions, these sociopaths are meeting and breeding at higher rates and creating sociopaths who are even more extreme than their parents and grandparents.

6 posted on 03/13/2023 8:04:29 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: goodnesswins

You’re right. The last sentence sums it up:

“To tolerate evil is to give it sanctuary, but to bargain with evil is to give it legitimacy”.


7 posted on 03/13/2023 8:12:13 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: MtnClimber
But within two years of the Biden presidency, we have become aware of the same deep-running pathology emerging from the psychological bacteria that thrive and multiply in toxic liberal environments.

"Psychological bacteria" - I'm going to use that one.

8 posted on 03/13/2023 8:37:24 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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It’s certainly a more rational way to view things that the bilge that was posted last week about how brilliant the democrats are and how we underestimate them at our own peril. If we underestimate anything, it is their single-mindedness and sociopathic focus on power and greed. But like a dangerous predator, a single minded focus on an objective is not the same thing as intelligence. In fact their pathocracy diminishes their ability to deal with threats, as Trump proved in 2016.


9 posted on 03/13/2023 8:53:55 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: Gnome1949
The last line of the piece is a warning you cannot bargain with evil.

2Co 6:15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial?

10 posted on 03/13/2023 9:08:57 AM PDT by spankalib
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