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Comment author: jmmcd 14 January 2012 04:38:44AM 1 point [-]

I'm pretty sure a larger than normal fraction of people that rule us are sociopaths.

I've seen some speculation about this, but even if it's true, and the proportion is larger by an order of magnitude than in the background population, it's still a lot less than "most".

I don't think sociopathy or malice is really a good explanation of what goes wrong, when it does go wrong, among people of power.