Is Ben Carson Really a Psychopath?

I mean you know a lot of times he's been referred to as nuts but when you say it you don''t necessarily mean he's really literally a psychopath. 

Sure he says lots of crazy things about how the Jews could have avoided the Holocaust if there were just a working NRA in Germany at the time, and just the other day he compared abortion to slavery. 

Everything is either like the Holocaust, slavery, or abortion, to Ben Carson. 

With Carson's recent surge in the polls, a lot of the pundits and GOP establishment are ecstatic an telling us this is when it ends for Trump. First it was Iowa polls but now today a national poll had Carson up by a few-though still within the margin of error. 

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/can-ben-carson-really-take-out-donald-trump/

But it's beginning to seem like this guy might really be crazy: I mean really. When he was asked about Trump calling him 'low energy' he admitted that now a days he's pretty 'relaxed' but there was a time when he was much more 'volatile.' 

This turns out to be when he was 14 and he would use knives, rocks, anything handy. It was a rather astonishing admission though at first blush Chuck Todd seemed nonplussed. 

So maybe this whole relaxed persona stems from a need to fight back against his scary inner volatility?

We remember that time he claimed he used a gun to heroically fight off a thief but then the story changed to where he told the guy with the gun 'You want the cashier, not me.''

http://www.vox.com/2015/10/8/9480797/ben-carson-gunman-popeyes

But these new revelations take us to a whole new level. 

"The more Ben Carson speaks, the more it becomes clear that he’s suffering from some kind of mental illness. His comments on guns alone have included everything from his historically false claim that the Holocaust was caused by gun control, to the assertion that he’s more offended by gun control than he is by a “body with bullet holes.” This all suggests that he suffers from paranoid violent fantasies. And after his recent admission on CNN about his consistently violent past, it may help explain his ongoing gun obsession."

"Carson was asked about his emotionless demeanor, which some have described as a catatonic while others have jokingly suggested that he’s asleep at all times. He refuted the notion that he’s too calm by pointing to his violent tendencies. He says that in his youth he attacked people with “rocks, and bricks, and baseball bats, and hammers.” He then went on to tell the story of how he once committed attempted murder by trying to stab his friend to death during a disagreement"

"Everyone has things from their youth they’re not proud of. But Ben Carson has revealed that during his youth he was apparently a murderous psychopath. People don’t magically recover from that kind of violent mental illness simply because they get older. While he appears to have willed himself into no longer committing acts of violence, he’s no doubt still suffering from his paranoid violent fantasies and his urges to kill. Perhaps that explains why he’s still so obsessed with guns, obsessed with Hitler, and obsessed with violence in general. In any other context, people would be calling for a violently mentally ill man like Ben Carson to seek treatment. Instead, republicans are calling for him to be President."

http://www.dailynewsbin.com/opinion/ben-carsons-shocking-past-which-includes-attempted-murder-suggests-hes-a-violent-psychopath/22924/

For more see this piece in Gawker.

http://gawker.com/ben-carson-has-plenty-of-energy-once-tried-to-stab-a-g-1738615515

I have mixed feelings about Trump losing his lead-it was just one national poll so it is premature to say he's no longer the leader. We will need confirmation as we have in Iowa.

My dream is for Trump to win the nomination or if not at least be a major factor deep into the primary next year.

But the GOP is hardly less of a joke because they now have someone with Ben Carson's description leading the party.