Interesting analysis of Bush as a sociopath:
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/interviews/049
If you love GW Bush, you can just skip this, and spare us your
predictable responses.
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Justin A. Frank, M.D.: I think there’s a lot of grounds to follow
your theory. First of all, I think that -- and I wanted to link with,
since you made the link in your response to my book, to his sister’s
death at an early age, and then jumped right into the present day,
December 27th, I think that there’s a way to make a link between
those two things straightaway -- namely, that he was left alone to
manage a catastrophe. His parents abandoned him psychologically and
emotionally, both because of their own grief and their own way of
dealing with their grief, but also because of how they were as
parents in general. Barbara was very preoccupied not just with the
loss of her daughter, but with the fact that there was a newborn at
home -- Jack, who was only a few months old. So he was left alone to
solve a terrible catastrophe of loss, evoking anxiety and all kinds
of things.
You can fast-forward that to the present day, and he is now feeling
very much in the same situation. Even Scarborough talks about how
isolated Bush is, and how it's like a bunker mentality. I think he
has had a bunker mentality all of his life, and that he has covered
it over and compensated for it with a tremendous amount of affability
and charm. That may be partly because he had trouble reading, so he
couldn’t like retreat and become isolated the way some people perhaps
do, by hiding in books, or drugs, or whatever. He hid from various
things, you know, with alcohol and things. But, mainly, he used his
affability and his charm to be able to brush away anybody who might
get to the core pain and terror that existed inside of him.
I think that that’s what’s happening now. I think somebody -- the
voters, the public, the Baker Commission, various people --have tried
to turn the light on. And he is very terrified of any kind of truth
that will intrude into his need to cling to preconceptions, because
they make him feel safe, and they allow him to stay in his bunker. He
looked disgruntled this morning. I was watching his statement about
President Ford, who died last night. I was really struck by how ill-
at-ease he seemed, and like he didn’t want to be doing it. There are
historical reasons for his being ill-at-ease, of course, and that was
that Gerald Ford and his own father, H.W., didn’t like each other
very much, and there was a lot of conflict between Ford and Bush
Senior during the Reagan days, early on. But that -- and Bush Junior,
certainly, is famous for holding grudges.
But I think, more than that, it’s like being told that he has to do
something he doesn’t want to do. He developed an attitude from very
early on of converting being neglected into a virtue. His having been
neglected as a child was turned into a virtue, which is that he’s not
going to ever be told what to do by anyone, and he’s going to be
stubbornly defiant, no matter what, because anybody who pays
attention to him is obviously not doing it out of love, but out of
authority and trying to control him.
This is one of the things that has happened during his Presidency --
the way he’s conducted himself as President, for instance, with
Katrina, with not preparing the troops, with various examples of
failure of empathy and of failure of concern, and a failure to act
and take care of people. It has to do with a replay of his own
childhood that he is imposing on the rest of us, and we are all
paying for that. I think the power of his psychology is such that he
really has flipped his own failure or pushed his own failures or his
own conflicts onto the rest of us. He’s gotten all of us to sort of
live as potential Katrina victims. That’s how he is, because he was a
Katrina victim in his own psyche when he was a child.
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