Unlocking the Political Mind
with a patriot's manual for saving our constitutional republic from itself
Ronald J. Fintak Sr. M.S.
Copyright © 2019 Ronald J. Fintak Sr. M.S.
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First Edition
NEWMAN SPRINGS PUBLISHING
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First originally published by Newman Springs Publishing 2019
ISBN 978-1-64096-852-3 (Paperback)
ISBN 978-1-64096-853-0 (Digital)
Printed in the United States of America
Table of Contents
Classical Conditioning and the CDR
Over-Focused Executive Thinking
Under-Focused Executive Thinking
The CDR in Politics and Culture
Introduction
What you are about to read will open your mind to new understanding regarding how to think about yourself and the politics you support. It is a product of a scientific psychology designed to expose some of the more significant mind-based realities driving the politics that is keeping patriotic citizens bewildered over what is happening to their America.
My recommending a psychology for exposing good or bad politics may strike you as folly or an irrelevant information source for explaining today’s seemingly intractable problems in a social context that has nothing to do with psychology. On the other hand, what other information source is there for patriotic Americans who are serious about exposing the cold realities driving good or bad political decisions—the political personality?
With this new psychology guiding us through political chaos, we can demand answers where we previously had no choice but to be satisfied with pre-programmed “solutions” wrapped in political psychobabble we’re all expected to nod to without question. Public silence and mob thinking only create more problems. Never forget: Our republic was formed by its Founders to be guided by an informed public that is politically engaged. Anything less eventually eats away at every honest attempt to organize American society into a political experiment that doesn’t tear itself apart from within.
I raise this point because it appears that America is about to enter that tragic but common moment in history where its political systems are being torn apart from within.
Look at it this way: What do we have to lose by systematically examining minds of individual personalities driving the political chaos that predictably makes mockeries of our best efforts? However, there’s a caveat: the investigatory process we must depend on to ferret out origins of political chaos is not what most of us are prepared to face. We’re accustomed to letting “experts” “solve” political issues for us; psychology has no role to play. Plus, digging deeply into the political mind for causes and effects with a psychology means digging deeply into our own minds for causes and effects. Therefore, my asking you to look to psychology to explain politics may be a step too far into the unknown; nevertheless, what other options are there? Politics will never explain itself.
The challenge before us now is whether or not we the people of America have the determination to carefully analyze the psychology some of us live by, which is the same psychology politicians exploit to create bad politics. What makes politics turn against its people is what makes us turn against people. Put another way, failures of politicians and institutions we are told to trust are rooted in our own individual failures. It is impossible to separate ourselves from our political world because we humans have created politics to become an integral part of the universal, human struggle to survive. Any frustrated struggle for self-preservation is no small matter, especially when we ignore or misread political realities that directly affect quality of life.
I am asking you to join me and other concerned Americans to save America from itself. The “hows” and “whys” are spelled out here in a clear language to reveal the human mind’s role in our political life. Guided by the information in this book, your efforts will reflect the spirit of the first Americans who, almost two and a half centuries ago, proudly stood up to face the political tyranny of their day. But there is a significant difference between then and now: America’s Founders and followers hoped for success. You don’t have to hope. The information in this book will give any reader the requisite strategies and goals patriotic Americans are now, if only subliminally, searching for to defeat a political enemy others don’t see and virtually no one fully understands. The fact that this enemy is transforming America for the worse right under our noses without most Americans having a clue is evidence of its considerable expertise at shaping our thinking so we, in the near future, surrender our liberties without a fight. Therefore, unlocking the political mind to identify and expose the political forces now destroying America with a scientific psychology is, I believe, all we the people have for saving our republic from itself.
Chapter 1
A Question of Significance
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
—Edmund Burke
You may not be thinking about politics. Make no mistake: politics is thinking about you. How it is thinking about you, and how you in turn should be thinking about politics, may hold the key to finally understanding the underlying dynamics that make up the political world we humans have created, and are destined to live in.
Theoretically, politics is supposed to answer collective needs to organize people into orderly societies so everyone benefits. But how politics organizes people is often captive to personal idiosyncrasies that may benefit the politician more than the people.
Taking a step deeper into political theory, and stripping down politics to its basic elements, we find that politics is a potential powerhouse of control by the few over the many. It is this reality that should concern us. However, it may not if we see politics as merely something other people do,