Six of one and half a dozen of the other. You pretty much have to be an egomaniac to stand for political office, but there is clear evidence that people become increasingly deranged with time in power. To take just one recent example, it took A.Blair a decade to transform from well meaning idiot to genocidal psychopath*.
I pretty much think he started out as a power hungry psychopath
He was never an idiot and never well meaning.
The war was deliberate. He wanted his own Falklands, and saw Iraq as his opportunity.
I pretty much think he started out as a power hungry psychopath
He was never an idiot and never well meaning.
The war was deliberate. He wanted his own Falklands, and saw Iraq as his opportunity.