Threat Brain

Threat Brain (TB), a Republican affliction of imagined danger, also known as WMD Delusion or Invented Antagonism, varies inversely with the Actual Threat (AT) according to rational risk assessment. It might not be a linear function but run quickly to infinity in the reasonable near absence of threats though this is hypothetical since there's always something to be afraid of. 

The only known remedy is death. Once someone is dead there's nothing left to fear but no one has been able to report back on this. Mystics maintain fear can survive death if the spirit is still shackled to its corporeality by guilt. Republicans thrive best in the presence of real, immediate existential threats. This is thought to be an evolutionary anachronism, and a potent one. 

Possibly the most potent evolutionary artifact, with natural selection favoring suspicion and paranoia over millennia, the survival of the craziest and most naturally belligerent. Republicans are believed to start wars because of this. All the origins of the wars of the past must be approached with skepticism for this reason, more so because the mechanisms are unconscious. 

Republicans are always sowing the seeds of discord in subtle ways. Recognizing that Republicans are a rogue branch of traditional European conservatism, Threat Brain still seems to be a conservative project, it's supposed because of privilege and entitlement. Privilege and the resulting assertion of arbitrary superiority and station mean conservatives think themselves targets. 

Field studies indicate a projection of their own jealous, arrogant, entitled, presumptuous, acquisitive, reactionary, and persecutory predispositions. They expect others to be like them, prone to unprovoked attack. Threat Brain can't be eliminated it must be contained. By its nature the assumptions of privilege apply to a minority. Be on the lookout for leverage and alliances. 

By these means they attempt to take over, achieve total control and unlimited power. When that happens we are fucked because the same suspicious mechanisms aren't assuaged they intensify. In their minds they have more to lose, further to fall and they're more vulnerable than ever. They will never see they bring that all on themselves, a case of self-fulfilling expectations