Covid Mandates are Changing the Brains of Politicians? Think Dopamine

How addictive is power?
So addictive that it alters the brain chemistry of people wielding it.
Below is excerpted from Spencer Fernando's pointed screed on BC today.

"Addicted to power.
Over the past year-and-a-half, politicians and public officials have dramatically expanded their power.  Unfortunately, power is addictive.

“Power, especially absolute and unchecked power, is intoxicating. Its effects occur at the cellular and neurochemical level. They are manifested behaviourally in a variety of ways, ranging from heightened cognitive functions to lack of inhibition, poor judgement, extreme narcissism, perverted behaviour, and gruesome cruelty.

The primary neurochemical involved in the reward of power that is known today is dopamine, the same chemical transmitter responsible for producing a sense of pleasure. Power activates the very same reward circuitry in the brain and creates an addictive “high” in much the same way as drug addiction. Like addicts, most people in positions of power will seek to maintain the high they get from power, sometimes at all costs. When withheld, power – like any highly addictive agent – produces cravings at the cellular level that generate strong behavioural opposition to giving it up.”

This means we must acknowledge that the brains of those in power are almost certainly different than they were a year-and-a-half ago, different in such a way as to want more and more power.  Much of this enjoyment of exercising power comes from the coercion-punishment relationship."