Everyone who was damaged by being put down and shown violence as children will carry with them a feeling of worthlessness they could not have survived consciously bearing. The worse the feeling the greater the defensiveness toward recognition. For such the ego is just a means by which one can see oneself as worthy and all that makes people really really worth anything in that phony world is power and money and the imagined envy of others. For the broken, those who suffer Stockholm syndrome the most, the Republican party is a perfect place, a place to experience an ego affirming mass psychosis where the worthless feeling can feel like the chosen.
Any fiction will do because our true selves dies as children and the pain of that if remembered is like reliving death in the present, as if that is exactly what is going to happen. Thus lies and more lies become the only way to stay alive, denial at almost any cost.
The greater the self contempt the more contemptible one becomes in avoiding becoming conscious of it which just means this is how we create what we fear. We become the thing we fear, being contemptible because it is what we unconsciously feel.
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