WTF is so "special" about Dorner & the LAPD, that unleashes Attack-Trolls on DU?

[Marr]

168. It's a conservative trait to instinctually side with authority and power.

Back in college, before I ever gave any serious thought to politics, I'd sometimes listen to right-wing radio on my drive to school-- just to count the number of logical fallacies the various hosts employed. One thing that struck me after a few months of this was that, whenever a story of police abuse began to break, conservative callers began vehemently expressing their support for the cops, without any facts whatsoever.

It struck me as odd back then, because they were also always honking on about what rugged individualists they were, how they hated the government and it's intrusions, etc.-- just as they do today.

Years later I read Bob Altemeyer's The Authoritarians, and it was very illuminating. Conservatives worship strength and authority, and that's it. They are supremely servile and very anxious to assign blame to the victims of bullies.