I used to be quite interested in this sort of thing, but I am out of practice by several decades. Perhaps I see it superficially now and miss essential elements. But I look to the odd psychologist/mystic G.I. Gurdjieff who felt that most humans were simply asleep. We sleep-walk through life, with no real deep thoughts or awareness. We are like machines. We wake up, go to work, go home, go to sleep. In between, we eat, make love, and perhaps pursue hobbies. But are we really “there”? Gurdjieff said that, mostly, we are not. The true quest for a man is to “wake up” and be present in their own life. It’s hard. We fool ourselves and think that we are in charge of our own lives, but really we are directed by forces outside of ourselves and we just drift along.
For my part, I see Hillary Clinton as really evil. I think she hates this country, and actively works to hurt the country and the people. John Kerry is also that way.
But I think most Democrats are asleep. I think Eichmann was mostly asleep. I don’t see any great reason why a person necessarily needs to be “possessed by an evil nature”. I think a lot of boring, sleep-walking people go through life causing damage without giving it a whole lot of thought. Banality of Evil has always seemed to me to be a very accurate concept.
I think that Hillary Clinton hates everyone, including herself.
C.S. Lewis' Screwtape Letters makes many terrific observations about how the human soul can be corrupted. One that has always stuck with me is:
"It does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”