Power allows existing personality traits to manifest themselves–it may enhance, but it doesn’t create the traits.
Unfortunately, since they themselves are quite unpleasant people–willing to do anything to achieve power–they often assume everyone else is the same, and can be quite paranoid. And to paraphrase the joke, just because they are paranoid doesn’t mean they are not hated and that everyone is indeed out to get them. Again, the traits were all there to start off with, power is not the cause, though it does enable the effects.
So don’t blame power. It’s just a door opener to the jerk within…
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