There are nine basic criteria used to diagnose the personality disorder, and I would argue that the United States currently meets all of them. Let’s have a look:
Source: Narcissistic Personality Disorder in the USA – ScheerPost
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For decades I’ve noticed how the general work ethic practiced by new immigrants and migrants is exceptional, particularly in the produce harvesting sector. It is back-breaking work that almost all second and third (etcetera) generation Westerners won’t tolerate for themselves, myself included.
I can truly imagine such laborers being fifty to a hundred percent more productive than their born-and-reared-here counterparts.
I’m not implying that a strong work ethic is a trait racially genetically inherited by one generation from a preceding generation, etcetera. Rather, it’s an admirable culturally determined factor, though also in large part motivated by the said culture’s internal and surrounding economic and political conditions.
However, I believe that once they’ve resided here for a number of decades, their strong work ethics and higher-than-average productivity, unfortunately, gradually diminishes as these motivated laborers’ descendant generations’ young people become accustomed to the relatively more slackened Western way of life.
One can already witness this effect in such youth getting caught up in much of our overall urban/suburban liberal culture — e.g. attire, lingo, nightlife, as well as work. And Western ‘values’ assimilation often means the unfortunate acquisition of a distasteful yet strong sense of entitlement.
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As I’ve stated before: Any U.S. president who’d make a serious attempt at implementing truly humane, progressive policies — notably universal single-payer healthcare, a significant reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions, military spending, a genuine anti-war effort, and increasing the minimum wage while also reigning in Wall Street abuse/corruption, etcetera — would likely be assassinated.
Bernie Sanders and documentarian Michael Moore come to mind as good examples of such a theoretical presidency. But Western virtual corpocracies ensure that any genuine progressive — rather than the usual DNC-implanted neo or fake liberal — would effectively be banned from just about everything in mainstream society, especially politics.
For anyone who hasn’t already noticed, the corporate news-media, both conservative and neo-liberal [including The New York Times], are subjectively hostile toward Sanders; or they at least are critical of his ideals and desires, which would actually help disenfranchised, low- and no-incomed Americans.
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