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Tiger8

(432 posts)
14. Everybody should read that Psychology Today article
Wed Oct 21, 2020, 09:41 AM
Oct 2020

Based on my own experience, the Authoritarian Personality Type develops at a young age.

Anybody who reads the article should understand there is no reasoning with them. They come from the "Might is Right" school of philosophy. If Trump or Putin make it to the top of the heap, whatever they do by definition is okay.

I have a right wing cousin that I used to debate, but had to stop for own sanity. He's very intelligent and works a professional job, but he's got the disease. Case in point...one of his views is that homosexuality is a choice, and agreed with Scalia that gay men could be arrested and sent to prison for having sex in their own home....but yet, his wife put a tracker on their home computer and found he's got a very active "gay life" online. She has a loveless marriage...he locks himself in a room all weekend doing "research" for client cases. I was sworn to secrecy by another family member, so I couldn't throw it up to him - but I bring it up because that self-defeating behavior extends to other areas....military service, drug use, economics, healthcare, etc.

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