If Petain hadn't collaborated with the Germans, he'd be be looked upon as hero today. But he did collaborate. As a result, Petain is properly looked upon as a Traitor.
Who else is corroborating? The Left with the proponents of Islamic militarism.
Of course a Collectivist’s going to have a problem with selfishness. It's not just an issue of tax policy. Before one can say, ‘this is wrong, I won't do it’, one has to say ‘I’.
Conscience is the expression of the ego in the moral realm. To make a moral judgment and to act on it are basically selfish acts. It’s the self that sees through its own eyes and acts on its own knowledge of right and wrong. Or to put it another way, you can't really be selfish if you can't live with yourself. Rational Selfishness as Ayn Rand tried to define and advocate was limited to acts which benefited one's self but caused no affirmative harm or inflicted a cost on another person.
Narcissism on the other hand, especially in the political realm, isn’t concerned with the injuries and burdens inflicted on other people. In fact, the more destructive the consequences of obedience to those who obey the narcissist, the better. Human sacrifice with beating hearts cut out and victims flayed alive, that's great, millions worked to death in slave labor camps in Siberia, that's better, as far as the narcissist is concerned.
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