Oddbean

I actually think it's the opposite. They're the minority but they're loud and demanding and happen to have forced their way to the top of the political ladder in most places (because they're that type of psychopathic). We're the majority, we just don't want to play their fucked up game.

I once had a discussion with someone and he told me about the Socialist Pyramid Scheme. At the top of the pyramid there are sociopaths. People who want power for the sake of power. Their great joy in life is controlling others. But they can't just say "give us power over you". So they wrap it up with an ideology. At the next level of the pyramid are people who understand that what they are seeking is power. But they believe the deception of the sociopath and think that the reason that they need power is to do good. At the lowest level of the pyramid, the rank and file, there are people who think that they are just pushing a social agenda. Without understanding how it will give power to the sociopaths at the top of the pyramid. My point is that you can't just split society to those who want to control others and those who don't. If it was that simple it would be easy to defeat the sociopaths. There are a lot of people who believe that they are doing good by advancing socialist agendas. It's them we need to educate.