I agree that they can charm people. That's one of their salient qualities and one reason they inspire fanatical loyalty. But once you know what's going on the charm evaporates and you see the rattlesnake beneath it.
That's another characteristic. I knew one very, very well. She was Hollywood beautiful and immensely popular! But on rare occasions--when something struck a nerve--the mask dropped, and her eyes were the eyes of a rattlesnake.
I saw this a few times.
Her mother saw it once and was in shock. She said that she had never seen anything like that before. She never fully recovered from the experience and never saw her beloved, "perfect" daughter in the same light again.
Right on, right on!
Gosh, that poor mom...gives me shivers...how did her daughter hide it so well from her own mother? That’s hard to imagine, unless the mom was wearing heavily-tinted glasses? Plausible.
So it must have been one of the more dramatic denouements, aka: mask-slipping event. Likely the reality the mom had been trying to deny for so long @ her “perfect daughter”...the mom’s denial was so great - that’s why she never fully recovered. Sad.
<<<<shudders
The parallels btwn the various flavors of sociopathy & leftists are impossible to overstate.
As FR often chronicles the left’s hypocritical and childish behaviors, so too does that resonate with the development of these conditions.
One always finds a point where the sociopath “arrested” in development. Usually it has to do with abandonment &/or abuse. All abuse is emotional, so emotional abuse (only) counts too. The age range varies, but you can spot it to somewhere btwn 6 - 14/15.
In a very real sense, they are always “that child”, “that age” (when the trauma occurred)...in adult bodies.
Now how is that so unlike the spoiled rotten ranting leftist loons? How can a Supreme Court Justice Pantload the Boatload of drivel she does? It’s transparent, ridiculous, and appalling all at the same time!
I see no difference between sociopaths & libs.
To understand libs,
study sociopathy.