Is being a Tory a mental health problem? And other ways to understand the wider forces at play in politics

In the epic battle between the right and the left, the fight between the self and society, it’s hardly surprising that the psychopaths tend to win out over the empaths and aesthetes. After all, in life, as in politics, the self-interested tend to floats to the top, while those more interested in care languish in low paid jobs, or worse, as mothers, or rather martyrs, do things for love alone.

We, the disenfranchised minority, the second sons of second son, or worse, not only failed to get the testosterone (first-borns are notoriously exposed to more in the womb,) no, nor the estates, primogeniture being what it was for generations. And so gradually, over history, we got cast out of the establishment for our left-handedness or our creative madness/genius, and were left to fend for ourselves. Caring being more in our nature, we survived nonetheless.

Politics, like human nature, falls on a spectrum, no not a rainbow, but a circle, where the extremes end up more like each other, which is why dictatorships can be totalitarian or communist. It is why artists kill themselves, and pychopaths kill others, and the rest of us sit somewhere in between.

But there are rather a lot of us. But that’s never stopped a dictatorship, except for one pocket of history when heads began to roll because the gross divide between the rich and poor got too extreme . It’s not impossible that that could happen again. These next five years could galavanise the masses into the sticky mire of politics, but against what? The point is that governments have so little power now over global corp.com that we are all just dancing to the same tune. If we regulate, then we, little Britain, now broken into parts so divided it’s limping onto the global stage like the bent backed old man it resembles, lose their business and for many of us the enslavement we call employment.

Though the Tories serve their own needs first, like all psychopathic, sociopathic types, perhaps it’s what we need right now as a nation, to shore up stability for the country against the tide of global economic power. But all is not lost, for the fragile, and the vulnerable, the socially minded and the empathetic. When power becomes concentrated too much, it can’t help but eat itself, like rats in a rat race, where in the end, only one is left to starve. After all, if we, the disenfranchised become so squeezed by global corp.com, then who will buy their tut? This is how empires crumble, and soon enough their eyes will open to it, or else we’ll bring them down with us.

In the meantime, we must try to find a way through it, and with the dissolution of the state, who will be there to look after the sick, the weak, the vulnerable, if we’re all chained to our desks in fear of losing our jobs, and our homes to which we are all enslaved by debt. No one.

Who will birth the next generation if no educated woman dare have a child for fear of losing her employment, or being dependent on a partner because maternity leave is eroded to zilch. It may not look like it now, but I see it in my own generation who delay and delay until it’s almost too late.

Who will stand up and be counted if raising our head above the parapet is likely to result in being shot down by someone with a bigger gun. And that’s the point. We need trident, actually, because in the end, the people in control need their egos kept in check by the threat of having their heads blown off.

So let’s cling on to what we’ve got while we’ve got it, those enough who are lucky enough to have something at all, for those at the top believe that possession is nine tenths of merit; that they got to the top by their own volition even if they started ten miles down the road in a Ferrari. For the rest of us , there is still strength in numbers, but remember, you’re fighting an enemy who couldn’t give a flying fuck and is too myopic to see your point of view, which can be hard to understand when you believe in fairness and compassion.

And for those of you who failed to vote, (although I don’t doubt there were many of you to weak and vulnerable to reach the polls) well, I’m sorry, but the Tories think you deserve what’s coming.

This link goes into much more depth about the psychological implications of Conservatism.