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An impaired ability to experience empathy is the primary reason both Republicans and sociopaths can trample and exploit any number of human beings economically, socially and militarily while never experiencing even the slightest twinge of remorse. It is why Bill Clinton was so viciously attacked for his, "I feel your pain" rhetoric and actions. To these people, the idea of feeling another's pain was ludicrous, absurd, nonsensical, laughable, pathetically "touchy feely".
It is past time we identify the unfortunate people forced to experience the world this way as what they are (in a sensitive and sympathetic way, of course):
The Empathy Impaired
And it is time to acknowledge the fact that we have a rapidly growing number of Empathy Impairment cases -known simply as as "E.I. Sufferers"- in America, and that this crisis is threatening life on Earth.