Tom Cotton, sociopath, believes we should be led by male elites like him
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Tom Cotton, sociopath, believes we should be led by male elites like him
by EyesBright
The dead eyes, the lack of personality, his lack of judgement when it comes to how others will view his actions, an utter lack of empathy for other human beings and an overweening ambition that developed early - all point to Tom Cotton as a man to be watched very carefully.
Even though, at age 37, he's the youngest senator in Washington, Red State calls him "the most powerful man in Washington."
An in depth, well researched article in the September, 2014 edition of The Atlantic traces Cotton from a childhood where he didn't speak until he was three years old and had a long lasting, severe speech impediment, through his college years and his thesis that sought to prove that only extremely ambitious males should rule, all the way to his nascent political career and important votes that reveal a troubling mind set.
Cotton's college thesis reveals his scorn for average Americans.
Cotton insists that the Founders were wise not to put too much faith in democracy, because people are inherently selfish, narrow-minded, and impulsive. He defends the idea that the country must be led by a class of intellectually superior officeholders whose ambition sets them above other men... he derides the Federalists’ modern critics as mushy-headed and naive.
“Ambition characterizes and distinguishes national officeholders from other kinds of human beings,” Cotton wrote. “Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from the people through a process of self-selection since politics is a dirty business that discourages all but the most ambitious.”
http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/09/the-making-of-a-conservative-superstar/380307/
And, yet, his ambition to be part of that "dirty business" was clearly evident from early on to local king makers.
From the time he was a teenager, Cotton has been nurtured and groomed by conservative institutions—scholars, think tanks, media, and advocacy groups—to be the face of their political crusade.
http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/09/the-making-of-a-conservative-superstar/380307/
It's not surprising that they seized on a young Tom Cotton. His is a brand of conservativism that is more heartless than most, a fanatical elitism that sees his views as uber superior in a way that few do (or would admit to).
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The people pulling the strings may be very smart, but people like him are nothing but puppets. He has already shown a pathetic knowledge of geography and the constitution for a public official. And being smart doesn't mean you have the best interests of mankind at heart.
