According to psychoanalyst Carl Jung, that’s because human psychology is messy. What’s worse, we usually lack the self-awareness to prevent our inner messes from spilling out all over the place.
Jung warned that “whatever is rejected from the self appears in the world as an event”. Psychologists call this projection. It happens because of an all-too-human tendency to see our flaws in others but to be blind to them in ourselves. Pots call kettles black – while calling themselves magenta.
We all project of course, but politicians seem especially susceptible.
