<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Alfred Alder opposed Freud on the basic urges of mankind. Whereas Freud said that they were sex and aggression, Adler said it was the will to power. Both in their way were right.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)">So if you were to look at people in high positions (that is, high status, the elite) it would be expected that they enjoyed it, sought it, wielded the power too much, in the wrong way, selfishly, and so on. As to whether they were obsessed with it, or addicted, is often a close call even to experienced clinical people.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)">So whether one can give examples of leftists who are 'obsessed with power and status' by the tens or by the thousands, it doesn't prove anything at all as to whether they are any different from people on the right. One would expect that a very high proportion of both leftists and rightists fit the description. Which is to say that they are typical, and successful examples of the human race as it now exists. <br>
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