All living beings are still here because very early on, from their unicellular stages, they had to learn to distinguish good from bad. In human beings this biological archaism is also transferred to their mind and if education, training and other characteristics that make them human are not developed, they do not discriminate, qualify and decide what is good or bad, distorting what they perceive. It is an explanation of why we take drugs, a subject that prompted me to write a book some time ago. It was a vital necessity, but given its origin as survival, it is usually taken from primitive emotions, largely unconscious, from the dissociation of the personality with which we preach one thing and do the opposite. We value the virtuous, but praise the predator. We preach, but do not give wheat.
All this makes sense to the psychopath who attacks, but first divides to weaken civil society, to take away its power, to question the institutions that stand in the way of his demolition projects: the monarchy, education, religion, the national reconciliation that gave rise to the Constitution we have. Foolish democracies, as Fidel Castro defined them and his deputy Chaves and the rest that are still alive. Attacking democracy by speaking their language. They denounce the extreme right and pact with the extreme left, and with all those who attack our unity. "Now Spain" but now pact with the anti-Spain.
"The discrediting of the leaders has also brought back into the public arena the lax curricula of the current political class. A good part of the deputies and senators have never worked outside politics. In other words, they are neither socially nor occupationally representative of Spanish society", says Joaquín Leguina.
Antipathy and division
Psychiatrists can know what a psychopath or narcissist is: manipulative, contradictory, without empathy, although he simulates it, he uses hatred because he brings together many resentful people for various reasons. But such a character is interested in power, money and uses the collective soul to arouse hatred, social division as a weapon to conquer and perpetuate himself. They are already divided, and those who are against me have already lost their strength. Here and in all nations, characters with these characteristics are activating the wild, unconscious power of the human animal giving free expression in incendiary protests in different parts of this world of ours.
In this way, they manage social groups by provoking antipathy, division instead of belonging to a Nation of all, breaking the continuity we were in. The same or similar can be said of almost all Western regimes. In elections and in Spain they have also used war techniques, pointing fingers, denigrating the "enemy", provocation, transgression, seeking clashes with those inside the cordon sanitaire by means of incoherent pugnacity. It is not that they say, publish and assert something and the next day the opposite, it is that they try to create instability and impotence in the citizenry, it is their political tactic here in other nations.
Their word is worthless because behind what they say is hidden another intention, a characteristic of the psychopath; we have lost confidence in politics, in politicians, and in passing there is doubt about the institutions. "Party leaders as real satraps who have made the exchange of positions and disagreement disappear.
With their populist programmes, which in no case are the fruit of empathy, but rather a tactic to replace what religions have offered for centuries, help for the underprivileged. By wanting to eliminate them, they are left with that role, but as a niche of voters professing the faith of the charcoal burner and communion with millstones. It is like saying that are breaking down the distinction between true and false, as Cervantes showed us for ever in Don Quixotethat ideologue of the laws of chivalry. Capital had not yet been written, nor had Hitler's "My Struggle/Mein Kampf", his gospel. Ideologues have a problematic relationship to reality when they look at it, be it political, economic or social. They demonstrate this by creating mistrust and uncertainty because their word is worthless, their speech, their promise, is replaced overnight by another one, attacking the intelligence of the citizen whom they despise.
Schizoid mind
I believe that in many nations immature people are being elected as leaders, as managers, who as I have said are narcissistic, arrogant, with almost all the traits of psychopaths, who have no other values than their own progress. With their immature, unhealthy personality, their schizoid mind between good with me and the cordon sanitaire to others; they activate our brain which is already working looking for culprits on the outside, with elementary categories and thick strokes, needing to locate evil. And they win because they have teams that transform them into something that matches the primitive mind stimulated by their marketing know-how and unscrupulous advisors like themselves. These guys manipulate, reactivate this whole schizoid mind that we have. We would say that the political struggle they sustain is a highly potent toxic for the mind. Intoxicated minds vote with their noses held and blindfolded. Because their political struggle, their behaviour and their way of muddling, misrepresenting, lying, is undermining health, thought, reflection and freedom to think on a planetary level. We are giving power, or they are taking it, to people capable of destabilising collective mental health. Their ultimate goal is absolute power without opposition and they are hindered by democracy with its separation of powers, by institutions, by the army as it is, which should also be an assembly, by private property and by those who have made their fortune through their work. Envy is a powerful engine for activating the predatory instincts of these people who want it all.
That is why they have converted politics at auctionIn which Spain is sold in portions and in which those who want to destroy it bid shamelessly. Bidding for money and perks sold as progress, as a progressive union. At last we have "the first progressive government of democracy". There is no need for a programme, no need to explain anything, not to understand what this statement means is foolish, it is exposed for the gullible. To question it may be for fascists. But the plain and simple truth is that these characters that we vote for or that are installed in power given our democratic naivety, are representatives of citizens who, like them, have their same instincts, their same anorexic values, their vision of everything for mine, and for me, and things must be elementary because that is what is best digested mentally. I and you vote for the one we identify with, who looks like us. Tell me who you hang out with and I'll tell you what you look like!
There is no point in criticising politicians if not their voters. For the rest, what can we expect from citizens breastfed by television, addicted to telephones, with a history fabricated to perpetuate division, leaving aside culture, art, science and values. But with football, influencers and social networks. With the Spanish language spoken by the macho men in Catalonia and Andalusia without being able to stand on a podium with the Spanish flag. What it is to have no leader at all.
José Antonio Rodríguez Piedrabuena
Specialist in Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis