#how #psychopaths #operate.

They #wear a #mask to #manipulate #others.

#Deception and #control is paramount.

There was an interview with teenage psychopaths, and they were learning how to manipulate the emotions of others. They were young enough to be surprised how #easy it was.

Again, unless you have dealt personally with psychopaths it is difficult to fathom. If they are in a position of power, there is little you can do if you are the target. The target is seen as the problem.

One specific example that came up frequently was "DARVO" — deny, attack, reverse victim and offender.
Whatever is raised they deny, they then deflect and start attacking their victim, and will switch roles to appear that they are the victim. (Category 4i)

Some of the tactics used to avoid accountability and culpability outlined in the data are so bizarre and so cruel and self-focused as to seem improbable, which is why targets/victims often have difficulty being believed, particularly where the person of DP is an 'upstanding citizen,' and there is no evidence of the tactics being used.
This also has political and military applications, e.g. the so-called false flag. But in ponerology it has an even greater significance. As Lobaczewski points out repeatedly, all pathocracies must adopt a macrosocial "mask of sanity/normality." They use ideology to achieve this. And the purpose is to conceal the truth and to avoid a "diagnosis" of the system as pathological — a persistent predatory sociopolitical structure. If such a diagnosis were widespread, people would see behind the mask and be horrified at the pathocrats' predatory nature (attribute group 2), and the pathocrats' grasp on control (attribute group 1) would be threatened.

https://www.sott.net/article/495294-Psychopaths-Masks-of-Sanity