Comments by "Tim Trewyn" (@timtrewyn453) on "Do People Care That Trump is a Sociopath? (w/ Jonathan Karl) | Beg To Differ" video.

  1. I did not have even a semi-organized understanding of sociopathy until reading Martha Stout's "The Sociopath Next Door" in my mid-50s. How can I expect the majority of the general population to understand there are people operating with little or no conscience? I encourage all manner of media to make the phenomenon more widely and better understood.
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  2. They use the word "strong", and imply the rest of us are weak.
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  3. Trump uses a palette of talking points to gather them: anti-woke, NATO allies with low defense budgets, any other foreign aid, ethnocentrism.
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  4. Per Dr. Martha Stout, in her book "The Sociopath Next Door" approximately 3% of the male population and 1% of the female population in the US are sociopaths. Sociopaths are not formally diagnosed as ASPD until reaching the age of 18. Per the US Census Bureau, approximately 78% of the US population is 18 or older. This is 262 million out of the 336 million current US population. This would put the number of sociopaths in the adult population at approximately 10.5 million.
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  5. The need to get out the vote and media's interest in a precarious and suspenseful election battle mutually reinforce. If a popular national vote selected the President, like popular state votes select senators, this would be a more predictable election. The Electoral College was intended to tilt the field to the rural gentry. Today, couple with gerrymandering, it destabilizes American politics.
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