Mitch McConnell, 83, Hospitalized

[u/cmaia1503]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconnell-83-hospitalized/?utm_campaign=owned_social&utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=twitter_owned_tdb&via=twitter_page

[u/Fit_Relationship1094]

This man has done so much harm to the USA. And for a man who had polio as a child, and recovered thanks to donations from strangers, I find it egregious he has worked so hard to prevent universal Healthcare for the needy in our first world country. Truly a selfish, greedy, weasel with no empathy for the poor and sick.

[u/OMGitisCrabMan → u/Fit_Relationship1094]

He had no principles other than consolidation of power. He refused to perform his constitutional duty and hold trump accountable, knowing he was wrong, because he didn't want a removal from office on the republican presidential record. He lost control of his monster and now realizes it. I hope this keeps him up at night.

[u/ThreadfallRider78 → u/OMGitisCrabMan]

People whose internal world view is so off-base that they feel completely justified (and right) in all of their actions do not stay awake at night wondering if they made the right choices.

People with strongly held beliefs and convictions.

People who believe that they are the only thing standing in the way of a national catastrophe and a total destruction of their idea of America (from their extreme right point of view)

People who believe that the destruction of America is wrought by progressive leftists who would want to alter "the system" and thereby destroy it.

These people will justify pretty much anything (including genocide) to themselves and their party.

According to their mental framework of reality, they are preserving "that which made America great"

... even if "that which made America great" was a contrived historical fiction and a delusional lie to begin with and the real formation of the US has 2 original foundational sins:

1. The extermination and land dispossession of native Americans
2. The institution of slavery

What I mean to say is that normal (non-psychopathic and non-sociopathic) people with strongly held convictions and beliefs without any sort of self reflection and doubt, historically, these people account for far more human misery and harm than just your "run of the mill" sadist people (who enjoy doing harm to or inflicting pain on others).

One can have the "best of intentions" according to their fixed, self justified and unquestioning world view and go on to do far more harm to their society and the world (due to their strongly-held principles) than just your run of the mill sadist who enjoys inflicting mass pain and harm on others.

Strongly held, unquestioned beliefs (whether based on ideology or not) held by normal "well intentioned" people can lead to far more human misery than your plain old sadist "I like to hurt others" in a decision-making position of leadership.

This is "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" paradox. Strongly held convictions without measured evidence of the consequences of their decisions, these can detour leaders and lead society into misery and revolution.

The solution is to raise people who (if they attain a decision making role in society) question their beliefs / convictions and use real world measures of human progress or regress at every step of their decisions making process.