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John W. Whitehead Constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead is president of The Rutherford Institute Twenty years ago, a newspaper headline asked the question: "What's the difference between a politician and a psychopath?" The answer, then and now, remains the same: None. There are surprisingly few differences between psychopaths and some politicians. "Politicians are more likely than people in the general population to be sociopaths. I think you would find no expert in the field of sociopathy/psychopathy/antisocial personality disorder who would dispute this. That a small minority of human beings literally have no conscience was and is a bitter pill for our society to swallow -- but it does explain a great many things, shamelessly deceitful political behavior being one." --Dr. Martha Stout, clinical psychologist and former instructor at Harvard Medical School Twenty years ago, a newspaper headline asked the question: "What's the difference between a po