Filtering out narcissist and psychopath Leaders

When we consider our political leaders, we hope that they’ll be able to pull rabbits from their hat, be super-creative, motivating and can change everything around us for the best. Yet, don’t spend enough time thinking about their current and potential character development. 

People who seek powers (candidates) do it generally for two reasons: To serve their constituents (rarely) or – most of the time - to satisfy their personal needs (recognition, power, ambition and sometimes nefarious desires).

If we were, as a whole smarter, we would deconstruct them to search if there’s a potential for evil in them (if we can call their narcissist, machiavellian, psychopath or suspect ideological views that way). 

The problem, of course, is that’s not easy and one would need to dig deep into the politician’s past, their innuendos and other tell-tale signs to uncover likely negative trends that could predict their future development. 

This was easy in the case of Berlusconi orTrump, perhaps less in the case of Putin, that well-behaved KGB bureaucrat. As for the upcoming French election, Marine Le Pen and her father offers a dark-enough background to bring up red flags all over. 

So what does these considerations leave electors the world over? Perhaps to opt for the boring, unattractive and unexciting candidate like a Biden or a Merkel, but a lot safer in terms of potential behavior…