Hypocrisy Projection -

Hypocrisy and Projection are related to each other:

“Hypocrisy is a failure to act in accordance with the standards you claim to hold.

“ Projection is instead attributing/accusing others of that which you yourself feel or do, usually falsely.

“They are tangentially related, but hypocrisy is contained to your own behavior, while Projection is about you and your behavior towards others.”

What I have observed lately in politics is something that goes beyond hypocrisy and projection — the combination of the two. It’s not only a failure to act in accordance with the standards claimed, but also attributing and accusing others of doing this.

I see this in the arguments being made on a variety of subjects. Certain politicians have become very good at this — making claims that are exactly the opposite of what they do. These usually circulate around the following of certain laws or the Constitution. The reality is far different than the claims of course. In fact, so far different that it is very much the opposite of what is being claimed and projecting onto ones partisan opponents the very “sin” that the claimer is actually committing.

The claims of stolen elections is a prime example — claiming that the other side is stealing an election, while at the same time the claimant is doing everything they can to overturn a result. Even just saying this is now controversial because people have become so aligned with an ideology that their sight is blurred…