“Why are all sociopaths not in positions of great power?” Dr. Martha Stout asks in her bestselling book, The Sociopath Next Door. “Why do they not win all the time? For they do not. Instead, most of them are obscure people, and limited to dominating their young children, or a depressed spouse, or perhaps a few employees or coworkers. Not an insignificant number of them are in jail. . . . They can rob and torment us temporarily, yes, but they are, in effect, failed lives.”
