I think that's overstating the mental health problem. Although the term used here is 'paranioacs', based upon clarifications made, I've gotten the feeling what we're really talking about is a handful of crazies among mostly lesser intelligence people - people of just below average to average IQ. Further, they are the type easily lead to the wrong conclusions, the type that can ignore cognitive dissonance for a pretty long time. They've been brainwashed at least a little to believe in things that make no logical sense. Sheeple.
Besides that, part of the point is that TW wants to have a society at the end of this, which means we necessarily must mitigate the impact of actual mental health problems. For that reason, I would assume anyone truly dangerous to the community for one reason or another would be dead within a few months, either from doing something stupid or execution/banishment by the group. This is, after all, not a group that will be particularly squeamish. No bleeding heart liberals will be found in such a community. Anyone who does have those traits is likely to be submissive and have a dominant spouse/parent/sibling.
Now, it is fair to say that I've been assuming the El Presidente and his Cabinet won't have anything more than mild mental health issues, and that I've pegged them with things more along the lines of narcissism and megalomania, maybe some delusional behaviors. If El Presidente is serious crazy, though, he won't last long in the post. No matter how successfully cowed and gullible a population is, people won't put up with serious crazy for very long after having been under a mostly sane government for most of their lives.
Besides that, part of the point is that TW wants to have a society at the end of this, which means we necessarily must mitigate the impact of actual mental health problems. For that reason, I would assume anyone truly dangerous to the community for one reason or another would be dead within a few months, either from doing something stupid or execution/banishment by the group. This is, after all, not a group that will be particularly squeamish. No bleeding heart liberals will be found in such a community. Anyone who does have those traits is likely to be submissive and have a dominant spouse/parent/sibling.
Now, it is fair to say that I've been assuming the El Presidente and his Cabinet won't have anything more than mild mental health issues, and that I've pegged them with things more along the lines of narcissism and megalomania, maybe some delusional behaviors. If El Presidente is serious crazy, though, he won't last long in the post. No matter how successfully cowed and gullible a population is, people won't put up with serious crazy for very long after having been under a mostly sane government for most of their lives.