Stephen Miller never learned what most of us did when we were in school: Anyone can become an American. It's an inclusive label, not one to exclude others.
Jim, I always appreciate your understanding of the conscious and unconscious aspects of what organizes the minds of brutal men who are driven to destroy others.
The driven quality that characterizes men with Dark Tetrad characteristics is their need to avenge the suffering they, themselves, experienced in the first three years of life when they were in desperate need of attention and affection from cold, indifferent, and/or psychologically disturbed parents.
Child rearing in Germany, for example, has a long history of being brutal and purposely insensitive. Trump’s grandfather was German. Elon was raised among Nazis in South Africa. Here’s just one article that describes the purposeful mal-treatment of infants and toddlers, intended to create un-empathic, mindlessly obedient children for the Fuhrer:
And here’s a Golden Globe award-winning film that depicts the way many children in Germany were treated in the decades before Hitler malevolently captured the nation and purposely codified such abuse. It’s called, “The White Ribbon.”
The horde of socio and psychopathic people Trump employs as extensions of himself have all, probably, been raised in insensitive families that left them in a chronic state of powerless rage. Now grown up, they displace their murderous rage and revenge fantasies onto the scapegoat du jour…immigrants who are powerless and vulnerable the way they used to be. The sadistic glee they experience is that now, THEY are the powerful ones and someone else is the weak, humiliated, less-than creature who deserves to be treated harshly.
Is you is or ain't you ain't a sociopath? One is by crocodile and two is by alligator.
The colonization of Uganda by the British Empire birthed and empowered Idi Amin.
Indigenous tribes used to eject their own sociopaths (those incapable of empathy) because they recognized them as a threat to group survival. Europeans and the English exported their sociopaths all over the world to destroy and rob. Somehow a sociopath/murderer like Columbus still has a holiday named after him in 16 U.S. states according to Pew Research (2023). Films about greed is good became popular. Multi-millionaires were allowed to become billionaires. Now societies are being ruled by them. Poetic justice.
I didn't know thus aspect of Amin's reign of terror. The film 'The last King of Scotland' portrays a lot of the horror.
Stephen Miller never learned what most of us did when we were in school: Anyone can become an American. It's an inclusive label, not one to exclude others.
Jim, I always appreciate your understanding of the conscious and unconscious aspects of what organizes the minds of brutal men who are driven to destroy others.
The driven quality that characterizes men with Dark Tetrad characteristics is their need to avenge the suffering they, themselves, experienced in the first three years of life when they were in desperate need of attention and affection from cold, indifferent, and/or psychologically disturbed parents.
Child rearing in Germany, for example, has a long history of being brutal and purposely insensitive. Trump’s grandfather was German. Elon was raised among Nazis in South Africa. Here’s just one article that describes the purposeful mal-treatment of infants and toddlers, intended to create un-empathic, mindlessly obedient children for the Fuhrer:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/harsh-nazi-parenting-guidelines-may-still-affect-german-children-of-today1/
And here’s a Golden Globe award-winning film that depicts the way many children in Germany were treated in the decades before Hitler malevolently captured the nation and purposely codified such abuse. It’s called, “The White Ribbon.”
The horde of socio and psychopathic people Trump employs as extensions of himself have all, probably, been raised in insensitive families that left them in a chronic state of powerless rage. Now grown up, they displace their murderous rage and revenge fantasies onto the scapegoat du jour…immigrants who are powerless and vulnerable the way they used to be. The sadistic glee they experience is that now, THEY are the powerful ones and someone else is the weak, humiliated, less-than creature who deserves to be treated harshly.
Regarding Tom Homan's comment, now they're arresting parents as they're dropping their children off for pre-school.
Ice arrests Oregon chiropractor as he was dropping off child at preschool https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/17/oregon-ice-arrests-outside-preschool?CMP=share_btn_url
Is you is or ain't you ain't a sociopath? One is by crocodile and two is by alligator.
The colonization of Uganda by the British Empire birthed and empowered Idi Amin.
Indigenous tribes used to eject their own sociopaths (those incapable of empathy) because they recognized them as a threat to group survival. Europeans and the English exported their sociopaths all over the world to destroy and rob. Somehow a sociopath/murderer like Columbus still has a holiday named after him in 16 U.S. states according to Pew Research (2023). Films about greed is good became popular. Multi-millionaires were allowed to become billionaires. Now societies are being ruled by them. Poetic justice.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/10/05/working-on-columbus-day-or-indigenous-peoples-day-it-depends-on-where-your-job-is/