Tbh....Mike was a human being...imagine thinking you lost because of ''politics''....how does that affect you psychologically??
Well, if he truly espoused Randian objectivism, he wouldn't have cared what the judges thought. He would have recognized the merits of his own physique and continued to compete. Like Dicketson or Bannout, both who went on to win the Olympia.
Politics didn't do him in. Sleeping for only 3 or 4 hours a night then compensating with amphetamines for months on end did him in.