The culture war is not fundamentally between left and right, liberal and conservative, progressive and reactionary, tolerant and intolerant. Fundamentally it has nothing to do with ideals, values or visions of the future. It’s a fight between decent people and sociopaths. Psychopaths are congenitally shameless. Born, that way, they are neurologically deaf to the inner nag of empathy. Sociopaths aren’t born but made. Some are brainwashed but many are not. Many are motivated sociopaths because being one is tempting, satisfying, efficient and effective. Sociopaths learn how to be shameless. We un…