[LA note: This was an enormously long post, interesting at first then turning into an endless rant. I’m leaving the first few paragraphs and deleting the rest.]

David Duke is a malignant narcissist.

He invents and then projects a false, fictitious, self for the world to fear, or to admire. He maintains a tenuous grasp on reality to start with and the trappings of power further exacerbate this. Real life authority and David Duke’s predilection to surround him with obsequious sycophants support David Duke’s grandiose self-delusions and fantasies of omnipotence and omniscience.

David Duke’s personality is so precariously balanced that he cannot tolerate even a hint of criticism and disagreement. Most narcissists are paranoid and suffer from ideas of reference (the delusion that they are being mocked or discussed when they are not). Thus, narcissists often regard themselves as “victims of persecution”.

Duke fosters and encourages a personality cult with all the hallmarks of an institutional religion: priesthood, rites, rituals, temples, worship, catechism, and mythology. The leader is this religion’s ascetic saint. He monastically denies himself earthly pleasures (or so he claims) in order to be able to dedicate himself fully to his calling.

Duke is a monstrously inverted Jesus, sacrificing his life and denying himself so that his people - or humanity at large - should benefit. By surpassing and suppressing his humanity, Duke became a distorted version of Nietzsche’s “superman”.

But being a-human or super-human also means being a-sexual and a-moral.

In this restricted sense, narcissistic leaders are post-modernist and moral relativists. They project to the masses an androgynous figure and enhance it by engendering the adoration of nudity and all things “natural” - or by strongly repressing these feelings. But what they refer to, as “nature” is not natural at all.

Duke invariably proffers an aesthetic of decadence and evil carefully orchestrated and artificial - though it is not perceived this way by him or by his followers. Narcissistic leadership is about reproduced copies, not about originals. It is about the manipulation of symbols - not about veritable atavism or true conservatism.

In short: narcissistic leadership is about theatre, not about life. To enjoy the spectacle (and be subsumed by it), the leader demands the suspension of judgment, depersonalization, and de-realization. Catharsis is tantamount, in this narcissistic dramaturgy, to self-annulment….

If David Duke is in Bahrain, that means he is no longer in Big Spring.

Duke was given fifteen months in the federal pen for stealing from his donors. His gubernatorial opponent, Edwin Edwards, was given ten years, for stealing from all the citizens of his state.
( http://www.suiteroyale.net/write_%20to_%20Edwin_%20Edwards.htm )

This might suggest that the average Democrat is eight times as bad as the worst of Republicans.

Assuming that David Duke’s conviction and sentence were just — and I’ve not seen any good reason to believe otherwise — I wonder when Jesse Jackson will finally face his comeuppance for the many similar, and worse, offenses he has committed in this regard.

Double standards prevail, depending on race.

Wheb you donate to almost any cause run by a “civil rights leader”, there’s a tacit understanding that a large portion of said donation will go to the Big Man himself.

Jackson can fall back on the “reasonable man” defense.

What defense is that? That anybody donating should “reasonably” infer that Mr. Jackson is flouting the law? But if he’s breaking the law, then he should still face the music, regardless.

What he’s falling back on is the cowardice of our government officials and their fear of the spurious but dreaded “racism” charge.

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