Pathocracy

[Glenn Scheper]

This speaks directly to the problem addressed by Andrzej Lobaczewski in his 
book, Political Ponerology: The Science of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes. 
In this seminal work on how evil rises to the top in any society and culture, 
and how it develops ramified networks of manipulation and control, the problem 
is addressed in terms of pathological deviance. In any society, there is a small 
percentage of deviant individuals who seek power over others. In a society, set 
up as the American society is, based on the previously described capitalistic 
ideology of John Calvin, what quickly develops is a "dog eat dog" world, and the 
fact is that deviant dogs always do better than normal ones.
  -- http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/signs/editorials/signs20061103_TheBushesandTheLostKing.php