"The scholarly literature is continuing to find increasing evidence that psychopathy, as defined here, is associated with: desire to enter political life; confidence in one’s ability to be successful in politics; political participation; and a tendency to vote for candidates with the same psychopathic personality traits. Plus, consistent with what might be predicted from such research results, a study of psychopathy across the contiguous U.S. states observed the highest psychopathy ranking in the District of Columbia." So, this explains a lot, doesn't it? https://thecirculationofelites.substack.com/p/politics-psychopathy-pathocracy?s=r