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A short refresher
TB — (archived)

The book you read that set you off on all this was John Dean's "Conservatives without Conscience," and from the title on down, damn straight it was aimed at a particular political party.

I went back to Dean's sources (did you?), showed where he had misrepresented them, and the problems with the original studies, and you paid no attention whatsoever. But as far as you are concerned, John Dean is the author of this concept, and that's as far as you wanted to take it.

Altemeyer called it "right-wing authoritarianism," and stated that they are more likely to "be conservative/Reform party (Canada) or Republican Party (United States) lawmakers who (1) have a conservative economic philosophy; (2) believe in social dominance; (3) are ethnocentric; (4) are highly nationalistic; (5) oppose abortion; (6) support capital punishment; (7) oppose gun-control legislation; (8) say they value freedom but actually want to undermine the Bill of Rights; (9) do not value equality very highly and oppose measures to increase it; (10) are not likely to rise in the Democratic party, but do so among Republicans."

--The Authoritarian Specter

Tell me that's not political. Frankly, discussing this is pointless, since at this point I probably know more about the subject than you do.

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