sociopathic nation

"Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? 
    nay, they were not at all ashamed,
        neither could they blush…” (Jeremiah 6.15

On March 7, 2019, I posted the following quote on the ‘just quotes’ page of this site.
 
“To understand his [Caligula’s] actions, it is essential to keep in mind that sociopaths have only one goal: to enhance themselves, and that in pursuing their self-interest, they lack both normal human empathy for others and a normal human conscience. Cheating, conning, lying, stealing, threatening are all done with no remorse.

“When stressed with facts that would require them to admit failure, or even that others know more or are more capable than them, sociopaths lose track of reality, becoming delusional with insistence on the truth of what they psychologically need to maintain their superior view of themselves. Indeed, nobody matters except to the degree they can serve the sociopath’s personal needs.
 
“Mr. Trump has a long history that proves his diagnosis. If you consider the 7 traits that define Antisocial Personality Disorder in the DSM-5, he meets every one of them:
 
1.   Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors

2.   Deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying … or conning others for personal profit or pleasure

3.   Impulsivity or failure to plan ahead

4.   Irritability and aggressiveness

5.   Reckless disregard for safety of self or others

6.   Consistent irresponsibility, as indicated by repeated failure to sustain consistent work behavior or honor financial obligations
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7.   Lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another” (Tana Ganeva, “Harvard psychiatrist: Donald Trump's actions are signs of a “severe, continuous, mental disturbance’” salon.com).
 
Now, anyone who has followed posts made to this site knows that I suggested this diagnosis as early as 2016. However, I highlight this quote, not because it is in agreement with my own feelings, but for a different reason.
 
As I considered the seven traits of the sociopath, it occurred to me that America, especially as evidenced by its foreign policy, is, in very fact, a sociopathic nation. Every sentence of the first two paragraphs could be applied to the nation.
 
American has “one goal: to enhance [itself]”—as evidenced by its MAGA fetish. The rest of God’s children only exist to “serve the [nation’s] needs.”
 
“In pursuing [its] self-interest,” America “lack[s] both normal human empathy for others and a normal human conscience—no empathy for our own poor, the world’s refugees, immigrants on our borders, innocent men, women, and children blown to bits and into tiny human fragments of flesh and bone and gray matter by our devilish drones, etc., etc., etc. I will have more to say on this below.
 
How we wield of our military might and “threaten” the rest of the planet “with no remorse,” but with arrogant, boastful, and false justifications!
 
American has, certainly, lost “track of reality, becoming delusional with insistence on the truth of what [it] psychologically need[s] to maintain [its] superior view of [itself].
 
In our foreign affairs we have, since the Second World War, failed to conform to international law, repeatedly lied about our violent and secret behavior taken to ingratiate ourselves, acted with aggression on every corner of the globe, disregarded the harm we have perpetrated against innocent men, women, and children, and shown a profound lack of remorse, always finding false justifications and rationalization for our vile deeds.
 
In the past week, the right’s sociopathic Caligula--utilizing the power of the “executive order,” so hypocritically criticized by the right when Obama utilized it—decreed that U.S. military and intelligence leaders no longer need report the number of people killed by U.S. drone strikes. This, done without fanfare, in the shadows, and thus without any resistance by the compliant and complicit American citizenry is simply the latest nail in the coffin of the diagnosis: American is a sociopathic nation.
 
It will no longer acknowledge or accept accountability for its rampage and pillage the globe over.
 
It is a danger to God’s children everywhere.
 
It is a nation in open and violent rebellion against the high and holy God of Heaven.

"​The kings of the earth set themselves,
    and the rulers take counsel together,
against the LORD,
    and against his anointed, saying,
‘Let us break their bands asunder,
    and cast away their cords from us’” (Psalms 2.2-3).