Hey Jock,

Try 90%. Psychopaths **always** gravitate to the places of power over and influence on those they consider to be their inferiors. Cleckley noted the effects of this personality type on his immediate social circle. Tony Blair is an example of the effect such a person has when he commands an entire nation. And more importantly, **the ideology doesn't matter**. Labour, Tory, capitalist, communist, these are just larger "masks of sanity" for the hiding the infernal, unspoken alliance of psychopathic personalities that gradually infest even the most benign of social organizations, let alone a government. Check out the social dynamic of the average ladies' church group. Power is power. It's only a matter of the scale you are able to command

Here's a quote from a reseacher working at the same time as Cleckley but behind the Iron Curtain (ca 1940's). This group of scientists made the figures of the Soviet government large and small the subject of psychological analysis, carried out in the strictest secrecy. There's a good reason for totalitarian governments to fear true psychological science! Dr. Lobaczewski's book, Political Ponerology [Ponerology - greek poneros,evil =the study of evil], was destroyed or lost three times before it was published only two years ago.

Dr. Lobaczewski writes:

"In any society in this world, psychopathic individuals and some of the other deviant types create a ponerogenically active network of common collusions, partially estranged from the community of normal people... Their sense of honor bids them to cheat and revile that ‘other’ human world and its values at every opportunity." (Lobaczewski, 138)

“We could list various names ascribed to such organizations… gangs, criminal mobs, mafias… which cunningly avoid collision with the law while seeking to gain their own advantage. ***Such unions frequently aspire to political power in order to impose their expedient legislation upon societies in the name of a suitably prepared ideology, deriving advantages in the form of disproportionate prosperity and the satisfaction for their craving of power.” ***(Lobaczewski, 158, emphasis added)

You can find more good information at www.ponerology.com