The Bully Is The Vulnerable One.

 Let me explain, from my own perspective how I see emotional vulnerability in a relationship; When a person is emotionally vulnerable, for whatever reason, it becomes much easier for them to be manipulated by other, more dominant people. Like Manson, in the book I am, still, reading. This despot was able to concoct a persona which was built upon lies & a twisted logic, or reflections of his own angry psyche, & influence vulnerable people. People that had been damaged by others. He, like all bullies, was able to align himself with the disposed & emotionally fraught, then control them. He reinforced this dominance by plying them with acid & very endearing stories about how wonderful they were to him. How they were all one big, happy family. Manson was able to portray himself as a kind, loving Father type, who understood them all individually. Yet all he was really doing was controlling them all for his own good. First it was for company, then gratification & then later murder, but all for his own gain.

 Manson was an outcast of society. Someone who had been in prison all his life, others, the majority of society did want to be around people like him so they rejected him, naturally. But, like all people, he still needed love, attention, touch. His drive to achieve this took him along the path that he went down. He manipulated the vulnerable so that he could feel love, as nobody normal would go near him. Its no surprising he got others to kill for him. In fact, I`m surprised he never killed more. With the burning hatred he clearly had it would not be surprising to read that he murdered for fun.