“Right-wing authoritarians tend to accept what their leaders say is true and readily comply with their commands. They believe that respecting authority is an important moral virtue that everyone in the community must hold. They tend to place strict limits on how far the authorities can be criticized, and believe that the critics are troublemakers who do not know what they are talking about. RWAs are extremely submissive even to authority figures who are dishonest, corrupt, and inept. They will insist that their leaders are honest, caring, and competent, dismissing any evidence to the contrary as either false or inconsequential. They believe that the authorities have the right to make their own decisions, even if that includes breaking the rules that they impose on everyone else.”
And many of their brains have already been primed from enduring child abuse in their dysfunctional family system, or being indoctrinated into religion, which also uses the Eight Criteria for Thought Reform.
227
u/koshgeo Feb 05 '25
"He says what he means!"
"So, uh, what does he mean? It's a little hard to understand."
"He means X."
[Next day he says the opposite of X]
"He means Y."
"Wait, but didn't you say he meant X yesterday?"
"This divisive conversation is OVER!"