If Your Politics Obsess Over Control, You're Not Well
An honest breakdown of how fear masquerades as morality in right-wing ideology — and how healing begins with courage, not control.
“You are not fighting evil. You are losing to your own sickness.”
That’s the post that started this.
A sharp, cut-clean Threads drop born out of a single observation:
Every single hardcore Republican I meet is obsessed with gays, trans people, abortion, rape, or pedophilia.
Like clockwork.
They’re not talking about food systems.
Not talking about infrastructure.
Not talking about digital rights or parenting or the price of insulin.
Just… sex. And punishment. And fear.
I sat back and said: “This isn’t a political ideology. It’s a trauma disorder with a flag.”
The Obsession With Control: A Red Flag of Inner Chaos
Let’s break it down with a cold, steel-blade table:
| Healthy People | Unwell Ideologues |
|---|---|
| Create, heal, protect | Punish, restrict, surveil |
| Ask real questions | Project shame as moral law |
| Love complexity | Obsess over binaries (good/evil, man/woman) |
| Trust the body and spirit | Distrust pleasure, embodiment, difference |
You don’t need a PhD in psychology to recognize this:
When your identity requires control over strangers,
you are no longer political. You are unwell.
The Real Diagnosis: Not Evil, But Afraid
Fear is the mind-killer.
— Frank Herbert, Dune (1965)
Fear turns curiosity into conspiracy.
Fear turns moral agency into moral policing.
Fear says:
If I control them, I won’t have to face myself.
(Chaos break: Do you think there’s a secret lab of old white men somewhere injecting Fox News straight into their frontal lobes? Because I do. It’s shaped like a bald eagle, it’s underground in Utah, and it smells like microwave bacon.)
But back to the point:
Control addiction isn’t about righteousness.
It’s about internal collapse masquerading as order.
What Healing Actually Looks Like
It’s not a bill. It’s not a protest sign. It’s not shouting on the internet.
It’s… kind of boring, honestly.
It looks like:
- Therapy.
- Accountability.
- Shutting the hell up and listening.
- Letting go of punishment fantasies.
- Realizing your “enemy” is a mirror.
That’s why healing is so rare: it requires the one