The manipulative character

One of the characteristics of authoritarian personalities is their manipulative nature. There are people who are experts at controlling what others think, feel, and believe. 

Psychopower involves manipulating people's mental and emotional states. Political, religious, judicial, and media powers are aware of this. 

The term "gaslighter" is used to refer to someone who practices mental manipulation with the goal of confusing, disturbing, or driving someone to madness. 

Common in patriarchal cultures, the manipulator is generally a narcissist who treats the other person as an object, instrumentalizing them, because in their authoritarian position, the other person is there to serve them. 

If the basic precept of all ethics is respect for others, treating others as ends in themselves and not as means, then a manipulative character is unethical. 

The manipulative character is deceitful: they play the victim, lie compulsively, fabricate situations, distort words, humiliate, and convince their victim that they are always right. They make their victim feel guilty. 

Manipulative behavior is present in patriarchal culture, being common in heterosexual men across the political spectrum, although it is the fundamental characteristic of far-right fascists. 

Bolsonaro engaged in gaslighting against the entire Brazilian population, but there are many women who live with "Bolsonaros" in their homes. 

Behind the manipulation of the masses, of fascist and Nazi groups, behind young people who resort to violence, lies a manipulative character. And behind that manipulative character lies narcissism, envy, and a deep sense of inferiority that must be hidden at all costs. 

The manipulative character wants the other person to be responsible for their wrongdoings. They never take responsibility for their actions. The system of lies they create serves as their perpetual masking. Even when the mask falls, the manipulative character continues to act, because wearing a mask is not a crime. 

Psychological abuse is one thing, but if the manipulative character is an agent of the law, no one will ever suspect that he could also manipulate from the position he occupies. 

The manipulative nature of a person knows no bounds. They are even capable of manipulating the very notion of limits.

What happened and continues to happen in Brazil is related to the manipulative nature of the far-right. Just because the democratic perspective won the election doesn't mean the manipulative nature of the far-right has disappeared; on the contrary. The orchestration continues, and we need to be very careful not to fall back into the abyss, which we are still dangerously close to.