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Mike Johnson 'blindsided' by abrupt departure that could end Lauren Boebert's career

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Reminder: Trump’s Last Year in Office Was a National Nightmare

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‘This is torture': State of health care in U.S. prisons leads to brutal inmate deaths

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Poll shows US public support for LGBTQ+ protections falling for first time since 2015

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On top of a political crisis this is an empathy one too, IMHO.

Very much so. And maybe the crisis of empathy is the deeper, more critical problem.

I have noticed that, right alongside the attacks against LGBTQIA+ folks, there has been an overt effort to normalize both apathy AND the "disorders of conscience" (sociopathy, narcissism, etc) to try to repaint those lacking conscience and guilt as just "different" instead of the amoral predators among prey, who believe conscience is for the weak, that they are.

There was an article in the NY Times just a couple weeks ago doing that, and it wasn't the first. "Oh, sociopaths aren't that terrible, just different," that kind of shit, addressing the actual damage they do and the lives they leave wrecked in language more suited to a statistics report.

The first paragraph:

Sociopaths are modern-day boogeymen, and the word “sociopath” is casually tossed around to describe the worst, most amoral among us. But they are not boogeymen; they are real people and, according to Patric Gagne, widely misunderstood. Gagne wrote “Sociopath,” her buzzy forthcoming memoir, to try to correct some of those misunderstandings and provide a fuller picture of sociopathy, which is now more frequently referred to as antisocial personality disorder. As a child, Gagne found herself compelled toward violent outbursts in an effort to try to compensate for the emotional apathy that was her default. As she got older, those compulsive behaviors turned into criminal ones like trespassing and theft.