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Buckeye_Democrat

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2. I'm sure that Trump would score high.
Thu Nov 9, 2017, 12:47 PM
Nov 2017

There's a related "personality" called "right-wing authoritarianism" (RWA) described here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_authoritarianism

It's not quite the same. High-RWA people can support established social hierarchies despite not benefiting from them.

Trump received lots of support from people who scored high in RWA:
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/donald-trump-2016-authoritarian-213533

In fact, I’ve found a single statistically significant variable predicts whether a voter supports Trump—and it’s not race, income or education levels: It’s authoritarianism.


This struck me as funny (from the Wikipedia link), but my sense of humor is dark sometimes. It was only funny to me because it confirmed my suspicions. Such an ending isn't funny at all.

In roleplaying situations, authoritarians tend to seek dominance over others by being competitive and destructive instead of cooperative. In a study by Altemeyer, 68 authoritarians played a three-hour simulation of the Earth's future entitled the Global Change Game. Unlike a comparison game played by individuals with low RWA scores, which resulted in world peace and widespread international cooperation, the simulation by authoritarians became highly militarized and eventually entered the stage of nuclear war. By the end of the high RWA game, the entire population of the earth was declared dead.

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