Michael Trust - How to Deal With Narcissists

Published by Federalist Publications, Macclenny, Florida

All text and artwork, Copyright 2014 by Michael Trust

www.anonymousconservative.com

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Table of Contents

"A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he's alright."

-C.S. Lewis

Dr. M Scott Peck wrote in People of the Lie, that evil was, The exercise of political power that is, the imposition of one's will upon others by overt or covert coercion, in order to avoid... spiritual growth, and that evil was often rooted in narcissism. Narcissists expect everyone else to sacrifice and stifle their own accomplishments and ability, so that the narcissist's insecurity will not bother them as much. You see this with leftism everywhere. Where others are rich, the leftist expects to be allowed to take their wealth through government fiat, so they won't be so rich in comparison to the leftist. Where others can defend their families, the leftist expects them to weaken themselves by surrendering their weapons, so the leftist will not feel so inferior and impotent in that regard. The leftist is unable to confront a reality where they are not dominant and superior, so they seek to use government to force others to lessen themselves. Rather than focus on their own growth and development of their own self-sufficiency, the leftist seeks to have government steal the accomplishments, and suppress the self-sufficiency of others, on their behalf.

Some have said I shouldn't politicize this work, however politicization does three things, which are all of benefit, in my opinion.

First, I believe in individual freedom ardently, and believe the leftist's urges to enlarge government will hand ever more power to ever fewer elites. As this occurs, the resultant corruption will stifle the opportunities for anyone to accomplish anything, and that is bad for individual freedom as well as for America. Leftists are not my people, and it is my opinion that any obstacle which hampers their lives, helps freedom. So it is my hope that politicizing this work will deprive leftists of any benefits from it. If the social narcissists can take up the time of the political narcissists, those are all fewer narcissists occupying the lives of the good people.

Second, I believe firmly that political leftism is a form of Narcissistic Personality Disorder, especially in the more ardent of leftist ideologues. If you are a Leftist, merely by expressing your big-government, ideological beliefs, you betray a personal worldview in which you believe yourself to be superior to individual citizens, you believe those citizens need your Leftist dictates forced upon them in order to live their lives correctly, and anyone who opposes this assertion of your superiority, and the righteousness of your total domination of their lives, is somehow evil. If that isn't the narcissist's worldview, I don't know what is. Say what you will of small government Conservatives and Libertarians they do not seek to exert their will on others through governmental force. In neutering government, they deem no specific man's judgment, let alone their personal judgment, as necessary for the masses of individuals to lead noble, moral lives. Since narcissists and leftists are all the same, in elucidating the weaknesses of the narcissist, this work will also provide strategies to attack the weaknesses of leftists, and readers interested in freedom should be aware of that. That is best accomplished by pointing the similarities out, and that can only be done by politicizing this work.

Third, it is my hope that political leftists who read this will perhaps question, why exactly are they supporting taxes on the rich, as opposed to simply contributing more to charity themselves, mentoring an impoverished child themselves, or even supporting a more general increase in welfare spending, funded by all citizens equally? Why do they not demand anything of the poor in return for the welfare? Why do they try to disarm law-abiding citizens, when all of the relevant science shows, law-abiding citizens who have guns actually deter criminal attacks? Their policies are, without any doubt, an attack on the happy and successful, cloaked in false motives that are designed to shield them from any well-justified counter-attack.

This distaste for the happiness of others is why they try to keep citizens out of wilderness areas, oppress successful businesses with ever more burdensome regulatory and taxation schemes, oppose the traditional family structure (replacing it with bizarrely grotesque family structures almost guaranteed to produce dysfunction and unhappiness in the unfortunate children raised therein), lobby on behalf of the interests of those who would kill Americans, and grow an ever larger government whose only purpose becomes not the protection of citizens, not the protection of freedom, but rather the application of force, to crush those who strive to succeed and enjoy happiness. It is all envy and cowardice, mixed with a selfish inability to see things from the perspective of someone who only wishes to give everyone freedom from the mob's demands. It is all blind to the agency of others, which is the single most noxious aspect of the narcissistic personality.

By comparison to the Tea Party, whose sole goal is the diminution of the size and scope of government, the diminution of its interference in people's lives, and it's emphasis on personal freedom from outside oppression, the nature of Liberal evil should be clear, as should its relationship to Narcissistic Personality Disorder. The leftist political ideology is, The exercise of political power that is, the imposition of one's will upon others by overt or covert coercion, in order to avoid... spiritual growth.

Politicizing this robs any leftist of the ability to benefit from this work, and there is much benefit to be gained herein. There is no point in removing any enemy the leftist faces, for they will not seek happiness once their enemy is gone. They will only redouble their efforts to make everyone else as miserable as they are.

Years ago I happened on the description of narcissists from the DSM IV in an article on Narcissistic Personality Disorder. I read the technical description and processed it, but never drew from the article what the narcissist really was, or why that psychology was significantly different from that of a normal person. The article described traits like shallowness and grandiosity and drew a picture of a person who thought they were great, but didn't care about others. The article then likened various politicians to narcissists, describing examples of each one's narcissistic traits, such as sensitivity to criticism, shallowness, and self-aggrandizement.