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by unimpressive 4642 days ago
"By adolescence, Kraft had taken a keen interest in politics, becoming a staunch Republican[12] with aspirations to become a U.S. senator. Shortly after his enrollment at Westminster High School, he and two close friends founded a Westminster World Affairs Club. At Westminster High School, Kraft was again regarded as a pleasant, bright student who regularly achieved A grades."

That's not disturbing at all.

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Are you disturbed that he was a Republican? Because if you'd read the very next section of the Wikipedia article you'd have seen that it said:

"Shortly after his enrollment as a freshman at Claremont Men's College, Kraft enrolled in the Claremont Reserve Officers Training Corps[16] and he regularly attended demonstrations in favor of the Vietnam War and — in 1964 — for the election of conservative presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. Kraft later declared these actions were merely a mimic of his parents' political views and not his own, describing his second year at Claremont as being when he abandoned "last gasp" of conservative ideology.[16] The same year, Kraft entered his first known homosexual relationship."

>Are you disturbed that he was a Republican?

Not in the slightest. If that paragraph had said "democrat", but every other word was the same, I'd have pointed it out.

I'm disturbed that in an alternate universe we could be reading about Kraft's reelection campaign.

I'm also disturbed that this police officer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Balcerzak) could even continue doing his job and be elected as a public official after handing back a victim to his would-be murderer. And still asking for appeal and getting his job back after his termination.
That Wikipedia article scares me more than the Serial Killer one. This dumb SOB is still a cop & was installed in a leadership position. Where the F#?k is Dexter when you need him?
> Where the F#?k is Dexter when you need him?

Vigilantism is not the answer.

Sorry, I wasn't calling for vigilantism, I just thought it was funny how the Wiki article looked like the beginning of a Dexter plot.
Surely Dexter isn't technically a vigilante, given he works out of a police station.
> I'm disturbed that in an alternate universe we could be reading about Kraft's reelection campaign.

Both serial killers and politicians (and CEOs) have sociopathy in common. It's not a huge leap to imagine such a universe. Think of all the innocents killed at the hands of the current slate of US politicians.