Former secretary of state and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton railed against supporters of Donald Trump during a new CNN interview, comparing those who still support the former president to members of a cult. “Maybe there needs to be a formal deprogramming of the cult members,” Clinton concluded. She wants to send half the country to re-education camps.
Clinton’s tirade is reminiscent of Stalin and Mao. She feels justified in locking up her political opponents, a strategy that we ought to recognize—it is the preferred strategy of the current commander-in-chief, Joe Biden. Clinton’s behavior, and by extension that of the Democratic Party, can best be described as sociopathic.
It has been estimated that one in 25 Americans is a sociopath. As described by Dr. Martha Stout in The Sociopath Next Door, a sociopath is a person who lacks a conscience and whose behavior is marked by deceitfulness, irritability, and lack of remorse or responsibility when causing harm to others. “Not everyone has a conscience,” Dr. Stout explains. “Some people will never experience the exquisite angst that results from letting others down, or hurting them, or depriving them, or even killing them.”
Sociopaths are often charming and charismatic, but their main concern is for themselves and they often blame others for the things that they do. They have a complete disregard for rules and lie constantly. “It is not that this group fails to grasp the difference between good and bad,” says Dr. Stout, “it is that the distinction fails to limit their behavior. Without the slightest blip of guilt or remorse, one in 25 people can do anything at all.”
Hillary Rodham Clinton fits the profile perfectly, especially this trait: a grandiose sense of self-worth, as in, “Someday the world will realize how special I am.” Sound familiar?
Clinton’s persona is notable for the lack of a moral center, which is the defining characteristic of sociopaths. A penchant for not accepting responsibility has been observable throughout her public career. In her email server scandal, Clinton acted as though she is above the law. When four Americans were murdered on her watch in the Benghazi disaster, Clinton defended herself by saying, “What difference does it make?” As secretary of state, she traded government favors for contributions to the Clinton Foundation and then lied about it.
The hypocrisy of her self-anointed role as defender of women was exposed when she defended her husband’s sex crimes. Covering up her husband’s vile behavior and falsely accusing Donald Trump are manifestations of Mrs. Clinton’s sociopathology, as is the attempt to blame her election loss on everyone else from Trump to the media to the Russians. By extension, the same can be said of the Democratic Party, a party that has consistently lied about its suppression of minorities and its contempt for the US Constitution.
Democrats live by the Machiavellian adage of “the end justifies the means.” The self-serving behavior of party apparatchiks like Hillary and Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi is devoid of a moral center.
“Sociopaths are almost invariably seen as bad or diabolical by mental health professionals,” says Dr. Stout. “Not to care at all about the effects of our actions on friends, on family, on our children? What on earth would that be like?” The answer: It would be like Hillary Clinton. While it may be difficult to accept that sociopaths like Mrs. Clinton inhabit positions of power, it offers all the more reason why we need to identify them and seek protection from their amoral behavior.
Her CNN interview leaves no further doubt that Hillary is a Stalinist. Take heed—this is what we can expect from the Democrats. Voting them out of office must be a national priority.
Ed Brodow (www.edbrodowpolitics.com) is a conservative political commentator and author of two No. 1 Amazon Best Sellers, AMERICA ON ITS KNEES: The Cost of Replacing Trump with Biden, and THE WAR ON WHITES: How Hating White People Became the New National Sport.
