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The autrhoritaruian explanation ahs always seemed to weak t me.. It is too simple.. ad tooe asy to accept for teh people ont he left... it is the diea of "all thsoe nasty people".
I personally think is much more complex than that.. which is not to say that there are not autoritarian people... though I doubt this is really the explanation it seems.

Just a thought.

A pleasure

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

by kcurie on Tue Feb 26th, 2008 at 07:45:36 AM EST
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There are authoritarians on the left, too. It's not about left/right, fundamentally, but about the dynamic of authoritarian followers and social dominator leaders.

We have met the enemy, and he is us — Pogo

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Feb 26th, 2008 at 07:56:59 AM EST
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iyes, sure.. i was jsut saying that this explanation seems to please a lot of lefty people .. like an explanation of all our problems. I have not meet any right-wing guy losign an election or the geneal argumen because of teh autoritarian side of the left.. mroe like on te "pussy" nature of some on the left.

And it seems to me excessively simplstic.

A pleasure

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

by kcurie on Tue Feb 26th, 2008 at 10:34:00 AM EST
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