Psychology
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psychopath (plural psychopaths)
- A person with a personality disorder indicated by a pattern of lying, exploitativeness, heedlessness, arrogance, sexual promiscuity, low self-control, and lack of empathy and remorse. Such an individual may be especially prone to violent and criminal offenses.
- A person diagnosed with antisocial or dissocial personality disorder.
- A person who has no moral conscience.
- A person who perpetrates especially gruesome or bizarre violent acts.
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Politics and other terms
Glossary of Terms which have been subjected to rebranding or used to convey erroneous concepts:
American – To us: Citizen of the United States with God given rights affirmed by the Declaration of Independence. To Them: Economic Unit.
Carbon Credit – An example of corporatization.
Classical Liberal – An individual who says they are dedicated to the ideas of freedom without necessarily ensuring that freedom becomes real.
Conservative – To act in a way that preserves those institutions and values that already exist and within which the individual feels emotionally secure. Politically, to adhere to a specific set of values and a political agenda that promotes those values. Today those values are small, limited government, individual rights, and limited taxation.
Corporatize – Correct word for Privatize – The act of selling off small slices of the rights of individuals to corporations.
Democrat – Person registered as a Democrat. Not ideologically indicative.
Deregulate – Ignoring prevailing conditions of injustice masked by statutes previously passed into law and removing statutes passed to mask the original problem.
Free Market – Exchange taking place when recognition of the inherent rights of all individuals allow their choices to drive market response.
Left-Wing Crazy - Term used, among others, to dehumanize and demonize.
Liberal – An individual dedicated to the ideas enunciated by Herbert Croly. Those ideas call for a strong, centralized State. Liberals are still invested in the emotionally satisfying feeling they are idealists without ever having examined their ideas.
Libertarian – Libertarianism is a philosophy based on the principle that individuals should be allowed complete freedom of action as long as they do not infringe on the same freedom of others. This is usually taken by libertarians to mean that no one may initiate coercion, which they define as the use of physical force, the potential use (threat) of such, or the use of fraud to prevent individuals from having willful use of their person or property. (from the wikipedia)
NeoConservative – The term was coined by Irving Kristol in the 1970s. A classical progressive/socialist who is probably registered Republican, if they bother to vote, and is dedicated to the perpetuation and health of the Corporate Military Complex that uses government as a corporate resource. Uses ideas to augment income, not an ideologue.
Populist – Belief that there is an elite who make a practice of destroying opportunity for those lower down the food chain, viewing ordinary people as economic units. The Populist Party uses government to try to fix the problem. Right analysis, wrong fix.
Privatize – The act of selling off small slices of the rights of individuals to corporations. Properly: Corporatize
Privileges – Often confused with Rights. Privileges are prerogatives mandated by legislators or through executive action that require someone else to subsidize the privilege you are enjoying.
Progressive – Originally based on the ideas of Herbert Croly in his book. The Promise of American Life. The book called for a stronger centralized government which came into being almost immediately. His vision defined the 20th Century Liberal. Today Progressivism has changed its orientation and some Progressives/Liberals describe themselves as local government progressives who support individual rights which makes them, functionally, closer to the definition of Libertarian.
Republican – Individual registered as Republican. Not ideological indicative.
Right-Wing Nut Job – Term used, among others, to dehumanize and demonize.
Rights - You choose, regarding what you do, how you do it, and what you do with the profits. You are acting, “within your rights,” as long as you don't lie, connive, or use violence to achieve your goals.
