The narcissistic personality disorder has some of the following traits: chameleon-like character and verbiage, and a void that is covered up by image cultivation. The narcissist is interested in power - the rest does not count -, is amoral, vain, envious, strategically empathetic, demanding of others and extraordinarily tolerant of their cheating. Calculating, he works to tarnish the image of others, allying himself only with those who favour him. Cheating and vindictive. Manipulative, giving or receiving, because in truth he neither gives nor receives. Authoritarian and cowardly because he cannot show his face or admit his own mistakes. Sympathetic if it suits him. With values that can be taken away and put back. He tends to achieve his goals of command and power because he has no morals to value the corpses he leaves behind. They have the ability to paralyse the minds of others, as well as their morale and courage. That is why they can become magnificent dictators. Exhibitionists, they do not tolerate anyone being above them, they lack the ability to recognise the worth, the authority, the science of others. Spontaneously they sit in the chair until the usher warns them.
He does not recognise the worth of anyone, because he has the instinct to see his fellow men for their ability to follow him, even when it comes to massacres. In everyday life he does not value anyone because he thinks he is above everyone else and has to cover up this contempt with flattery and false evaluations. Perhaps the serious point is that he does not know himself as he is, he has no inner self; life is a mirror for him to preen himself. They do not set limits for themselves, they can embark on any task, even if they have no training for it. Because they tend to be good imitators, fakers and play any role. Some can be good fakers. Their words are an instrument like seduction, lies or imposture.
Sanchez said that he was leaving because with his resignation he wanted to contribute to giving politics a sense of fidelity to the word given, and a sense of commitment that goes beyond personal convenience. His partner was also as clear: "The politicians who live in Somosaguas, in villas where they don't take public transport". It was September 2015 and Pablo Iglesias confessed to Ana Rosa opening the doors of his home, which was "very comfortable" in his 60-square-metre flat. Earlier, in 2012, he wrote on Twitter: "Would you hand over the country's economic policy to someone who spends 600,000 euros on a luxury penthouse?", in reference to the then Minister of Economy, Luis De Guindos. And he added, in response to a tweet question: "Having economic policy directed by a millionaire is like handing over the Ministry of the Environment to an arsonist". So would it be wise to keep this new millionaire away from the cash register?
"Resentment and envy are always present in any society and especially in some ideologies. The right, extreme or not, believes in the efficacy of tacit or explicit pacts that end civil wars. The left despises them and, if it seems to admit them at times, it does so out of tactical considerations. But it only trusts in the continuity of the class war under the pretence of peace or truces" (Jon Juaristi, in El Cultural, 22-11-2019).
The Transition has been a truce for them. It is necessary to retake the Republic and the fragmentation of Spain. With the help of the salvific and progressive left, now grafted from Cuba, Venezuela and Bolivia, they want to impose it on the Spanish people.
It would be truly progressive to stop manipulating and attend to some emergencies and to crunch the numbers and show us the huge amount of money in health spending, which is costing us now and will cost us later, that a third of deaths in Spain are related to avoidable risk factors: 67,000 are due to smoking, 52,000 are linked to poor diet, 32,000 to alcohol consumption and 95,000 to low physical activity. Not to mention the addictions of adolescents to binge drinking and new technologies. It would be very progressive to tackle these issues once and for all and stop dividing us and using our votes to accelerate Spain becoming even more of a state in demolition.
What about science?
And progressive. The mismatch between the number of places on offer to train new doctors, the shortage of specialists, outdated technology and the real future need for doctors.
Other. Climate change. Electricity Grid has not authorised this year dozens of solar energy installations requested, with various arguments, to cover up the deficiencies of its networks and spend money on extending them. It has spent it on a foreign purchase. Is it interested in eliminating pollution? It is run by a progressive. Science in Spain is sick. Very sick. For many years now, and although its illness has a cure, it has not been given what a good fate for these progressive proposals!
Is it because of the financial cost, does it need more public funding to be injected? Of course the injection of money from the public administration would be an incentive. But it is not the solution. The biggest problem we face, at the scientific level, is the lack of a symbiotic relationship that connects the academic world with the business world, and the real day-to-day needs, benefiting both parties. It would help the development of solutions that the business needs and, in turn, to undertake new lines of parallel research.
The vast majority of these positions are accessed by a totally obsolete mechanism in science, that of competitive examinations. We have half of the researchers with anxiety and depression.
In short, they should stop the lamentable ideological intoxication that distances us from the real problems of our tiny society, inserted in a gigantic global complexity, and which they do not deal with in their progressive revolution. Meanwhile, they negotiate with Spain's enemies to seize power and continue their personal progress while leading the way backwards, towards the republics. Leaving aside unifying us for the present and complex future, with enough threats to put us to work together, which is incompatible with the backward turn they are leading, for which it is necessary to deactivate consensus and reactivate the primitive mind we have with which we vote. Citizens should know that they vote for those with whom they identify, for representatives who are equal to their way of being and seeing.
José Antonio Rodríguez Piedrabuena
Specialist in Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis. Specialist in management training, group and couple therapies.