well yes, actually I'm not such a nice person in rl as I am on a2k.
I commit perjury on that.
Dys -- I bet you are! As for me, I wish I were nastier. Been walked over too many times.
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I recommend you read John Dean's new book Conservatives Without Conscience to understand the authoritarian personality and their followers:
http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=78860&start=0
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BBB -- You are one of several people to recommend Dean's book. The interesting thing is that I brought up the notion of the authoritarian personality some time ago -- can not remember whether it was on this forum or the late, lamented abuzz -- but I do remember being thoroughly shot down by the right for even daring to mention any theory that they considered to be thoroughly out-of-date.
Which brings me to where I think the right is coming from and how it gets its info. They are the consumer nation, the followers of fashion, the folks for whom mass media was invented and who are constantly being re-invented by that same lame mass media.
Their shoes pinch but they go on wearing them, then use foul language to us who let them know how ridiculous their shoes are.
I suppose that a certain poster will answer with something from Posner at this point.
I suppose John Dean wrote that book with the intention of making no money, but lots of libs really happy.
