This mental instability and pervasive negativity are managed through the construction of a narcissistic false self, whereby the individual tells themselves they are morally superior to others.
This narcissistic self-creation serves to address inherent insecurities by reaffirming that they are better than other people. The ideology known as wokeness functions as a protective mechanism, preventing the individual from confronting the suicide-inducing emptiness at their heart.
Consequently, if an individual questions wokeness, they are questioning the very foundation of this protection, leading to a reaction characterised by narcissistic rage and attempts to destroy the challenger. Left-wing individuals are frequently filled with resentment, hating those who are successful and content, which prompts a desire to bring such people down.
The Dark Triad in Leftist Identity
Left-wing individuals are consistently high in maladaptive personality traits, specifically those comprising the Dark Triad: Machiavellianism, subclinical narcissism, and subclinical psychopathy.
Machiavellianism
Left-wing people are high in Machiavellianism. This trait is characterised by emotional separation, manipulative behaviour, and the pursuit of goals without regard for others. Machiavellists regard other people as highly untrustworthy and negative. They are skilled in the distortion of rules and utilise private or false information about their lives to gain proximity to their victims.
Subclinical Narcissism
Narcissism is deeply ingrained in the leftist psychological profile, especially as almost every overt expression of kindness is underpinned by mental instability and narcissism. Narcissists are entitled and grandiose, viewing themselves as superior, perfect, important, and infallible. This superior self-perception is based on a fragile self-confidence, driven by a constantly lusting ego that requires constant validation of its own value by the social environment, referred to as narcissistic supply. Negative feedback severely damages this self-image.
In a leftist society, being left-wing secures this narcissistic supply.
Vegetarianism
People that are vegetarian are elevated in narcissistic traits. This practice is undertaken to reassure themselves that they are superior to others, rather than because of a genuine concern for animals.
Organic Food Consumption
Individuals who eat organic food seek to gain narcissistic supply, reassuring themselves that they are superior and the best.
Subclinical Psychopathy
Left-wing people are also high in aspects of psychopathy. Subclinical psychopaths are dominant, impulsive, emotionally shallow, and are neither empathetic nor caring.
Covert Pursuit of Power and Status
Despite claims of pro-sociality, left-wing people are inherently individualistic and selfish, caring about themselves over society. They actively desire power. However, due to their mental instability, they fear engaging in a fair fight to obtain this power. This necessitates the acquisition of power covertly.
This covert pursuit is achieved by signalling intense kindness, ensuring that nobody suspects a desire for power. Thus, going into caring professions, which are supposed to involve helping others, is often a covert play for status. It functions as a method of reassuring the individual of their kindness and moral superiority.
Furthermore, research indicates that people that are left-wing tend to identify with and collaborate with individuals who are genetically distant from themselves in order to secure power over their own people. They highlight these distant people as marginalised, thereby masking the underlying collaboration aimed at taking power.
Implications for "Helping "Professions
The Dark Triad traits associated with leftist psychology are manifested in professions designated as helping professions, defined as occupations where helping others is the core element, such as providing guidance, protection, healing, and health improvement.
Individuals pursuing these occupations may be motivated not by selfless prosociality, but by hidden selfish goals, an effort to display one’s own personality for the perpetual need for admiration, or the desire for power. Egoistic goals are disguised by the need to help.
The main finding in this area reveals that helping professionals scored significantly higher than the general population in psychopathy. Specifically, rescue workers (such as policemen, firefighters, rescuers, and soldiers) and healthcare workers (such as doctors and nurses) scored significantly higher in psychopathy than the general population.
The relationship between a helping professional and a client automatically places the client in a subordinate role. This asymmetry allows for the abuse of social roles, attracting individuals who are motivated by the power they have over the person they provide help to. The motivation for performance can be saturated by hidden selfish goals and the desire for power.
Professions Elevated in Psychopathy
The trait of subclinical psychopathy is characterised by being dominant, impulsive, emotionally shallow, and lacking empathy or care. The analysis comparing specific groups of helping professionals to the general population identified two groups that scored significantly higher in psychopathy: rescue workers (RS) and healthcare workers (HC).
Rescue Workers
Rescue workers, a category encompassing policemen, firemen, rescuers, and soldiers, showed significantly higher psychopathic tendencies than the general population. This elevation is deemed rational due to the specific demands of these roles, where characteristics associated with subclinical psychopathy can be welcome features.
Necessity of Traits: Rescue workers experience tense situations involving death, injuries, tragedies, conflicts, and threats to life and property. Traits such as high self-esteem, courage, low anxiety, and stress resistance act as defensive mechanisms when confronting traumatic experiences.
Role Requirements: Professionals in these services must be able to cut off emotionally, deal with situations in an inhumanly cold manner, and exercise power quickly and without emotion when necessary, often making decisions concerning life and death.
Motivation: The profession guarantees social prestige, exemplified by the wearing of uniforms and presentation in the media, which ensures a positive response from others. Individuals with psychopathic features may also be attracted by the search for excitement and action beyond everyday experience.
Healthcare Workers
Healthcare workers, including doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, and dental technicians, also scored significantly higher in psychopathic tendencies than the general population.
Sub-Groups: More detailed research indicates that specific medical specialisms show particularly high scores:
Surgeons scored significantly higher in narcissism and psychopathy. This is attributed to the requirement for emotional distance or coldness, as surgical operations are risky for the patient’s life, and it is not natural for a human to cut into another human being. Surgeons require substantial control over the emotions involved in their profession.
Nurses scored significantly higher in psychopathy. Patient statements noting nurses as careless and insensitive suggest that failure to respect the human side of the patient can lead to direct physical or indirect psychological consequences.
Pediatricians have also reported a significant incidence of subclinical psychopathy.
Professions Elevated in Machiavellianism and Narcissism
While helping professionals as a whole did not significantly differ from the general population in Machiavellianism or narcissism when controlling for gender and age, descriptives suggest that certain specialised groups within the helping professions display high levels of these traits.
Machiavellianism
Descriptive indicators suggest that healthcare workers scored highest in Machiavellianism among the tested helping professions (mean 3.14). Post hoc testing suggested that healthcare workers scored higher than rescue workers, the general population, pedagogical workers, and social workers. Machiavellianism is characteristic of manipulative behaviour, emotional separation, and achieving goals regardless of others.
Narcissism
In the general comparison, rescue workers scored highest in narcissism (mean 2.71) among the tested helping professionals. Other studies examining specific professional types have noted high narcissistic tendencies:
Psychologists frequently show a narcissistic personality structure. The dangers inherent to narcissistic therapists include prioritising their own needs over those of the client and disrupting the view of the social situation, thereby limiting a critical perspective on the client’s problems.
University Teachers demonstrated the highest levels of all dark personality traits when compared to teachers at other levels. University teachers were significantly higher than elementary and secondary school teachers in Machiavellianism and narcissism.
Conversely, elementary and secondary school teachers were found to be significantly higher in psychopathy than university teachers. The roles of psychologists and social workers, sometimes referred to as soul surgeons, also necessitate remaining emotionally distant from clients for the well-being of both parties.