Why Do People and Nations Self-Undermine?

Interesting article on Gatestone Institute: “”The EU Must Stop Undermining Efforts to Save Itself” by Majid Rafizadeh.

This raises the deeper question: Why individuals and nations undermine themselves in the first place?

Why do people undermine their professional lives by doing things that harm their careers and alienate their colleagues and bosses? Why do people undermine their personal lives by doing things that alienate their spouses and families? Why do nations undermine themselves by importing millions of immigrants who despise their civilization, their religion, and their values?

Why, indeed? Is it self-hatred?

Were their parents so hyper-critical that they grew up with a sense of guilt and felt unworthy of success? Did they feel so unlovable that they believed there must be something wrong with anyone who loved them? Were they taught that their nation was so flawed that there must be something wrong with anyone who loved it, or even respected it?

Doctor Freud, Doctor Sigmund Freud, call your office stat. You are needed in the Emergency Department. We have disturbed people causing a great deal of damage.