Joel Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
A sane man instinctively recoils in horror from harming another, and later suffers PTSD from the guilt;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
A sociopath cares about his own group but not other groups and therefore has no problem harming them; and<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
A psychopath actively enjoys harming people and seeks out the opportunity to do so; then,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
judging from behavior observed on freeways, grocery stores, Twitter and social media, ordinary Americans seem to be sliding from sanity to sociopathy, becoming less empathetic and more emphatic, less generous minded and more generally pissed at the world in general. And judging from crime reports and YouTube videos, young African-Americans seem to be sliding from sociopathy toward psychopathy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
If true, this change will make it easier for all Americans to resort to violence, murder, rebellion, revolution, which is what certain Liberal\/Progressive\/Leftists seem to desire: an end to the United States as it now exists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Why has this happened?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Did we fall or were we pushed?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Well I\u2019m not going to answer directly, I will remind you that the extremes like it when people feel the need to abandon the center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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