The Rise of the Psychopath and Sociopath to Political Power
Are Trump and Johnson sociopaths? Our world led by destructive people.
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4 min readMay 29, 2020
The percentage of people in the general population without conscience and who take pleasure in the pain of others is one percent. Yet some years ago, studies showed that twenty percent of CEOs were sociopaths.
According to British psychologist Kevin Dutton, the top four career choices for psychopaths are CEO, attorney, media personality and salesperson. Source.
Politicians, Presidents, and Prime Ministers as Psychopaths and Sociopaths
It has become clear to those who recognize the characteristics of psychopaths that too many of our political leaders, if not full blown psychopaths, certainly have too many of those attributes.
