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The author of The Sociopath Next Door found that 4% of the general population are sociopaths, 60% are predisposed to obey sociopaths and authority, and 36% are disagreeable free thinking people like us. Proportion of sociopaths is much higher in government, corporations, and cities. Meanwhile, the CDC just extended the vax travel requirement again...

4% is a staggering number and hard to believe. That these people rise to positions of authority is easy to understand. Without the conflict of conscience they have a tremendous advantage. My sisters, and I fought a two year long battle, including the court system against a woman who took control of our elderly father suffering with dementia in an effort to steal all of his assets. She almost succeeded.

My family had a very similar situation: a man who took control of our father’s elderly cousin suffering with dementia in an effort to steal all of his assets. And he did succeed. My father was his next of kin and visited him about 3x a year as he seemed to mentally deteriorate. He then disappeared. Turned out his stepson had sold his house, moved him, taken power of attorney, bought him a new house but as tenants in common which allowed him to assume ownership on our father’s cousin’s death whi…