"Kill him", "sit down boy" "terrorist" ...remember "Conservatives Without Conscience"

[RedEarth]

All of the hatred we hear coming from the right wing freaks at the McCain and Palin rallies, fit the personality traits that John Dean mentioned in his book "Conservatives Without Conscience".


Below are some excerpts from his article... Why Authoritarians Now Control the Republican Party: The Rise of Authoritarian Conservatism
Part Two in a Three-Part Series

Today, the Grand Old Republican Party is controlled by authoritarian conservatives. (As I mentioned in my prior column, the first in this three-part series, to my knowledge no person in the GOP has ever denied that fact - and they are well-aware of my book.) More specifically, as I broadly outlined in my last column, the research of social scientists such as Bob Altemeyer has revealed the personality traits of both those authoritarians who are followers, and those who are their leaders.

The Followers: Right-Wing Authoritarians

Based on Altemeyer's study, as well as those of other social psychologists, I prepared a list of the additional traits that these personalities, both men and women who test high as right-wing authoritarians, often evidence: highly religious, moderate to little education, trust untrustworthy authorities, prejudiced (particularly against homosexuals, women, and followers of religions other than their own), mean-spirited, narrow-minded, intolerant, bullying, zealous, dogmatic, uncritical toward their chosen authority, hypocritical, inconsistent and contradictory, prone to panic easily, highly self-righteous, moralistic, strict disciplinarian, severely punitive, demands loyalty and returns it, little self-awareness, usually politically and economically conservative/Republican.

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The Leaders: Social Dominators

Much of the work on authoritarianism focused on followers, and only in recent decades have social psychologists developed tests to measure the traits of authoritarian leaders, or as Altemeyer states, "person who wanted to be submitted to." These people, because of their inclination and desire to dominate others and to dominate social situations in which they find themselves, are said to have a "social dominance orientation," given their take-charge natures.

Again, I have prepared a listing of the traits revealed in the testing of these remarkably manipulative and cunning personalities, who are typically men: dominating, opposes equality, desirous of personal power, amoral, intimidating and bullying, faintly hedonistic, vengeful, pitiless, exploitive, manipulative, dishonest, cheats to win, highly prejudiced (racist, sexist, homophobic), mean-spirited, militant, nationalistic, tells others what they want to hear, takes advantage of "suckers," specializes in creating false images to sell self, may or may not be religious, usually politically and economically conservative/Republican.

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20070921.html

[EFerrari]

1. And this is why the "naughty schoolteacher" shtick works for Palin. n/t

[ailsagirl]

2. Not only is this immoral, it's frightening-- inciting a riot????

:scared: :grr:

[tblue]

3. I love John Dean.

Do we really have to share a country with these people? I mean, for every step forward we make, they wanna slow us down, turn us around, cuss us out, threaten our safety, and push us 10 steps in the wrong direction. I am tired of living with that albatross around our neck.

[Leopolds Ghost]

4. Nice.

Did this article appear in a newspaper somewhere?

[RedEarth]

5. No, but it should ...

It was written by John Dean in 2007, but I wish the media would be pick it up again since it sure seems to explain the mindset of the republican party.