When we take a step back and look honestly at what is unfolding, the people that are trying to install an authoritarian regime—where fear is being used as a governing tool and power is concentrated without accountability—these people are not principled people defending anything that is truly righteous, ethical, or just; they are actually deeply wounded, psychologically underdeveloped, and ethically regressed individuals who mistake authoritarian control and fear-based dominance for moral conviction, moral authority, and moral righteousness, relying on a pathological misuse of power over others to cover up the courage, integrity, and self-examination that they lack at a deep and underlying foundational level of their conscience and inner being.

So, what we are witnessing, then, is not a defense of any kind of healthy values or principles by these political forces and authoritarian systems, but the systemic outcome of ethical regression, arrested psychological development, and underdeveloped moral reasoning—where unchecked power, fear, and totalitarian domination have become governing mechanisms which are actively being used to stabilize and normalize illegitimate and unrestrained forms of authority within society, to suppress dissent that would challenge or expose the abuses of power embedded within these systems, and to insulate those in power within these structures from accountability for their governing mentality and patterns of rule.

It is honestly disturbing to witness how many people remain emotionally and psychologically attached to fear-based authoritarian systems and political projects, because it reveals a profound collapse in discernment, ethical reasoning, and civic responsibility regarding what integrity, leadership, and ethical stewardship over a country actually look like and what they demand in practice when power is exercised over real human lives. It also reveals an inability—or unwillingness—to recognize that there are far more responsible, mature, and humane ways to exercise political power than by eroding civil liberties, democratic institutions, and human rights through fear-based authoritarianism. And that clinging to these systems reflects not strength or moral clarity, but a deep moral and psychological insecurity that cannot tolerate accountability, plurality, or restraint.

Because of this profound moral and psychological collapse of conscience and character, it can begin to feel as though there is no authentic human conscience animating their actions as human beings when they enable and support these systems of power, and that something essential to ethical self-governance, refinement of character, and the capacity for responsible exercise of power has gone fundamentally offline within them. So, to put it plainly, when participating in the maintenance of these systems, they are so deeply unconscious within their inner psychological world and moral orientation that they have become effectively severed from any meaningful relationship with their own conscience and from the capacity to learn, grow, and evolve throughout their lifetime—such that the inner transformation required to mature into wiser, more responsible, and more respectable human beings never occurs, leaving them embodying the very moral emptiness, psychological immaturity, and unrestrained relationship to power that defines their conduct today.

And so instead of choosing reflection, growth, integrity, and restraint in their individual conduct and in the broader institutional governance and systems of authority that they are a part of, or that they help to shape, influence, and oversee, they cling to life values that prioritize unchecked power, authority, impunity, and arrested psychological development—relying on fear, rigidity, moral disengagement, and authoritarian domination in order to avoid confronting themselves and the consequences of their mindset, methods, and abuses of power. In doing so, they normalize and parade this arrested state of development around as though what they embody represents the highest expression of human intelligence and societal advancement, when in reality it reflects a profound failure of moral maturity, ethical responsibility, and inner development, with real, lasting, and damaging consequences for the societies they seek to dominate, leaving behind a trail of institutional decay, civic erosion, and normalized injustice that future generations are left to inherit and repair.