Psychopathic Leaders Around the World

Experts believe that roughly 1% of our population is psychopathic and maybe 10% of our corporate CEOs are psychopathic. Many criminals are psychopaths. The central feature of psychopaths is that they lack empathy, probably from birth, and there is probably no effective treatment for this lack. But psychopaths make useful generals, executioners and even authors (Ayn Rand). I know nothing about any of this, really, but I got eight senior citizens, none qualified, to rate Mitty Romney, using the standard Hare Checklist. On this list the subject can earn up to 40 points with 25 to 30 points indicating a pathological lack of caring about other people. The senior citizens rated Romney as a 30. (What, me worry? Nixon was paranoid, W. Bush was half-brained and Reagan was senile. Hail to the President!)