The un-empathetic sociopath

I will wrap up the empathy series by making it political.

As long as I live, I will never ever understand how tRump was elected President despite all his sociopath behavior that he made explicit.

It continues to shock me that his mocking of a disabled reporter alone did not send him into political wilderness but, instead, got him more support!  What a disgusting turn of events!

More than ever, it is during a crisis that we expect empathetic leadership.  We want leaders to feel our pain, our angst.  We want leaders to tell us that the problem is for real, and that all the machinery of the government is working overtime to get us through this.  However, the leader chosen by 63 million people "tests negative for empathy," as the satirical Andy Borowitz phrased it.

A reporter tosses him a softball question that any other President would have crushed to a towering home run.  Not this sociopath in the Oval Office.  He had a meltdown.  Instead of reassuring Americans, and the rest of the world too, he proved yet again that he "is simply incapable of offering the kind of emotional support the country needs at a time like this."

You may say that this is a less important part of the job of president than actually running the government and making good decisions. But every president is called upon to reflect and tend to the country’s psyche, sometimes over limited traumas and sometimes over larger ones. And when they do it well, we remember it for years, even decades.

We will remember this sociopath for decades, yes, but for all the horrible reasons!

There is no empathy from tRump and his godawful toadies.  Not "a word of sympathy or compassion for the thousands of Americans getting sick and dying on this president’s watch, as a result of this president’s neglect of his duties"

Trump and his party-line media do not do that. They cannot do that. That would take empathy—and empathy might dangerously remind Americans of the tragic cost of Trump’s mismanagement and absent leadership. Rage is all they feel, so rage is all they can express. Hatred fills their hearts, so hatred fills their mouths. The government and the government-line television network are, for the time being, in the charge of broken souls. Those broken souls are breaking a nation.

63 million Americans are guilty forever!

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