Doomed by rampant narcissism

America’s army of narcissistic cultists

You bastards, you've killed us all!

There are accruing a number of papers, books and opinion which argue for Obama being a pathological narcissist.  The American Thinker's Obama, Oprah, and the Guru: Malignant Narcissism  went into it at some depth last September. “ Obama's entire campaign is nothing more than a demand to be recognized as superior without commensurate accomplishments. For individual instances of the undistinguished senator's grandiosity, please see Barack Obama Audacity Watch. ” More recently Dr. Charles Krauthammer famously asked “Does the narcissism of this man know no bounds?”  None of this will surprise most of us, so the big question I've been grappling with is, "How in Hell did this psycho gather together a coalition of air heads in sufficient numbers to get elected?  I never once  considered that we, as a nation, are in the throes of a ‘Narcissism Epidemic’ “ The rise in narcissism is accelerating, with scores rising faster in the 2000s than in previous decades. By 2006, 1 out of 4 college students agreed with the majority of the items on a standard measure of narcissistic traits. Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD), the more severe, clinically diagnosed version of the trait, is also far more common than once thought. Nearly 1 out of 10 of Americans in their twenties, and 1 out of 16 of those of all ages, has experienced the symptoms of NPD. Even these shocking numbers are just the tip of the iceberg; lurking underneath is the narcissistic culture that has drawn in many more. The narcissism epidemic has spread to the culture as a whole, affecting both narcissistic and less self-centered people.  (ibidem) ” How did this happen?  This snippet really struck a chord, because it ties together so many individual concerns many of us have been expressing for  years. “ We have phony rich people (with interest-only mortgages and piles of debt), phony beauty (with plastic surgery and cosmetic procedures), phony athletes (with performance-enhancing drugs), phony celebrities (via reality TV and YouTube), phony genius students (with grade inflation), a phony national economy (with $11 trillion of government debt), phony feelings of being special among children (with parenting and education focused on self-esteem), and phony friends (with the social networking explosion). All this fantasy might feel good, but, unfortunately, reality always wins. The mortgage meltdown and the resulting financial crisis are just one demonstration of how inflated desires eventually crash to earth. ” So there you have it.  We have been saddled with a monster by monsters ... us.  I don't know what you're thinking, but I'm seeing an engine with a cracked block, and  ... .  Click-click. Oh, and this -  The Fast and Furious Growth of the Obama Dictatorship