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“We asked American participants to identify the number of left-wing authoritarians in their lives, and I was very surprised at the sheer number they identified,” Conway told PsyPost. “I had predicted the average American would identify 1 or 2, and I laughed at a non-academic who predicted closer to 15. But the truth was very much closer to 15 than to 1.”

“In fact, even liberal participants identified on average quite a large number of liberal authoritarians in their lives.

1 posted on 09/04/2023 12:14:09 PM PDT by tired&retired
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I get SO sick of this old lie...”It’s obvious to a lot of people that left-wing persons can be just as authoritarian as right-wing persons...”

I’ve yet to meet a single right-wing person who had any authoritarian streak. The left conflates laws meant to provide societal stability and the conservation of the Republic with “authoritarian.” Like laws banning child mutilation under the pretext of “affirmative care” or putting some limits on abortion. The left declares such laws as “authoritarian,” but they are really meant to strengthen an immoral society.


2 posted on 09/04/2023 12:17:27 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: tired&retired

Frontiers in Psychology

Front. Psychol., 08 February 2023

Sec. Personality and Social Psychology

Volume 13 - 2022 |

https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1041391

Is the myth of left-wing authoritarianism itself a myth?

By Lucian Gideon Conway III

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1041391/full

Concluding Thoughts

Using a multi-method approach spanning multiple content areas, validity types, statistical controls, and scale types, the present results consistently show that, just as right-wing persons are sometimes authoritarian, left-wing persons may also be similarly authoritarian. Taken together, this large array of evidence suggests that left-wing authoritarianism is more of a reality than a myth.


3 posted on 09/04/2023 12:19:58 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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We certainly did not need a study to tell us that. These leftiat want to control everything.


4 posted on 09/04/2023 12:21:45 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: tired&retired
Paging Dr. Jordan Peterson: You can close the barn door now.
5 posted on 09/04/2023 12:22:07 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Sufferings are the guardrails on the road to Heaven.)
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Um, yea.

They’re called Communists.

They killed tens of millions and enslaved hundreds of millions.

That’s the issue.


7 posted on 09/04/2023 12:24:59 PM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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Left wing authoritarians killed way more than the few right side versions.


10 posted on 09/04/2023 12:29:36 PM PDT by wgmalabama (Censored !)
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This is one of those "I'm surprised that they're surprised" issues, but it is an indication of just how insulated academia is from real life. A certain amnesia about the 20th century's Communist bloc is required here, but the key phrase is "in their lives", meaning with a direct effect on we poor lumpenproletariat dummies unfortunate enough not to be academics.

The problem is the customary "it isn't oppression when we do it" blindness of a ruling class convinced that their motivations are purely benevolent - has anyone forgotten Hillary Clinton's perfect summation: "We're going to take things away from you for the Common Good"? Its all in the "we" and the "you" there. It's actually pretty hard to ignore once you're on the receiving end, and that the speaker intends you to be there for life.

11 posted on 09/04/2023 12:32:37 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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Interesting discussion on this topic with Dennis Praeger:

https://youtu.be/sA5-ZDtrNhk?si=of5GunAkOohtU0Sw


12 posted on 09/04/2023 12:32:50 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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This debate about ‘is there a left-wing authoritarian person’ is obviously something unique to academia. The average citizen already believes there is indeed such a thing.”

Left wing academia can't see it because it's the water they swim in..

15 posted on 09/04/2023 12:37:37 PM PDT by GOPJ (Hunter Biden’s pet name for his father on his cellphone? It was “Pedo Peter”. -- Jim Hoft )
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An authoritarian mental disorder based on a unhealthy or totally lacking self worth. So they need morons elected in above them to take care of them and rob and bully productive people. Just imagine if they all got sent to Greenland. They would probably figure out how to tip it over and capsized it....

Good evidence.


16 posted on 09/04/2023 12:39:37 PM PDT by foundedonpurpose (Praise Hashem, for his restoration of all things! )
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"Blackouts would have to be imposed during the "deepest darkest evenings" in January and February:

John Pettigrew, the UK National Grid chief, said:,

"Blackouts would have to be imposed during the "deepest darkest evenings" in January and February, if electricity generators did not have enough gas to meet demand, especially if there is a period of cold weather.

The UK has beat Gorebull warming and probably over population in the UK!

19 posted on 09/04/2023 12:42:38 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Georgia just crystallized Trump’s caympaign with a copyright-free image winning him nomination!)agee)
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To: tired&retired

It was always a stone cold lie created by left wing authoritarians from the Frankfurt School during the McCarthy era— that Hitler was was a rightist.

Americans from the 1020s-1940 understood the nazis another german left wing street gang—like the communists in the 1920’s— that came to power.


22 posted on 09/04/2023 12:46:21 PM PDT by ckilmer (ui)
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“left-wing persons can be just as authoritarian as right-wing persons,”

Oh please! What is authoritarian about the right other than “leave me and my children alone”?


32 posted on 09/04/2023 1:05:14 PM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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The left is socialist and hence authoritarian. There is the left and there is everything else.


54 posted on 09/04/2023 2:16:04 PM PDT by ChessExpert (Required for informed consent: "We have a new, experimental vaccine.")
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To: tired&retired

No kidding?


57 posted on 09/04/2023 2:46:20 PM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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