Are you an authoritarian?

[BidenPresident]

Who's drawn to fascism? Postwar study of authoritarianism makes a comeback

Scholars like Jonathan Weiler and Matthew MacWilliams have found that about 25 per cent of the American population are on the non-authoritarian end of the spectrum, 35 per cent are somewhere in the middle and 30-35 per cent are on the authoritarian end of the scale.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/who-...aTvPqGUy3J5_qvdVi6EaECVGVZbsxE9HhOh1oNFhvclUE

About one third of Americans are authoritarian and lean toward neo-fascism in politics.

 

[BidenPresident]

The Growing Religious Fervor in the American Right: ‘This Is a Jesus Movement’

Rituals of Christian worship have become embedded in conservative rallies, as praise music and prayer blend with political anger over vaccines and the 2020 election.

The Christian right has been intertwined with American conservatism for decades, culminating in the Trump era. And elements of Christian culture have long been present at political rallies. But worship, a sacred act showing devotion to God expressed through movement, song or prayer, was largely reserved for church. Now, many believers are importing their worship of God, with all its intensity, emotion and ambitions, to their political life.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/us/christian-right-wing-politics.html

 

[Jack]

Rituals of Christian worship have become embedded in conservative rallies, as praise music and prayer blend with political anger over vaccines and the 2020 election.

The Christian right has been intertwined with American conservatism for decades, culminating in the Trump era. And elements of Christian culture have long been present at political rallies. But worship, a sacred act showing devotion to God expressed through movement, song or prayer, was largely reserved for church. Now, many believers are importing their worship of God, with all its intensity, emotion and ambitions, to their political life.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/us/christian-right-wing-politics.html

Agree.
The Christian Nationalists are at (in their mind) a Crossroad. They must 'take back' the country from the secularists (Infidels) that support reason and logic as a means of living together.

 

[BidenPresident]

Agree.
The Christian Nationalists are at (in their mind) a Crossroad. They must 'take back' the country from the secularists (Infidels) that support reason and logic as a means of living together.

Religion is always authoritarian. But we are seeing the right wing nationalists using religion to gain power. Trump praised fascists as good people.

 

[Jack]

Religion is always authoritarian. But we are seeing the right wing nationalists using religion to gain power. Trump praised fascists as good people.

I couldn't agree more. To me "the right wing nationalists" ARE the 'Christians'. 'Christians' include Black and Latino, not just the politically correct 'White People'.

 

[BidenPresident]

I couldn't agree more. To me "the right wing nationalists" ARE the 'Christians'. 'Christians' include Black and Latino, not just the politically correct 'White People'.

As a group, Latinos are very conservative. And usually Catholic.

 

[Jack]

As a group, Latinos are very conservative. And usually Catholic.

Yes. My guess is the Catholic Church is behind the 'caravans' that head north from Central America. 'Birth Control' ... isn't part of the Program.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

I went and found a copy of the F-scale test these yo-yo's used. It's typical semi-bullshit. But see how you do on it.

My score: (higher total = more authoritarian)

https://www.idrlabs.com/f-scale/test.php

See how you do.

 

[BidenPresident]

I went and found a copy of the F-scale test these yo-yo's used. It's typical semi-bullshit. But see how you do on it.

My score:

https://www.idrlabs.com/f-scale/test.php

See how you do.

I am not an authoritarian.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

I am not an authoritarian.

Neither am I. I think the test is bullshit. What makes for good Fascists is a few really driven, power mad individuals who get into power and then use persuasion and popularity to lull the majority of sheep in society into following them with stuff that sounds good but really is totally destructive to society.
I don't think that those with an authoritarian mindset necessarily readily and willingly follow a fascist leader. Both Mussolini and Hitler drew mostly the disaffected and disenfranchised--that is the sort of losers, mostly male, in society that think they've been wronged. That is, the sort that loves being in Antifa, a neo-Nazi, or lives in a semi-fantasy of how things should be for them.

 

[BidenPresident]

Neither am I. I think the test is bullshit. What makes for good Fascists is a few really driven, power mad individuals who get into power and then use persuasion and popularity to lull the majority of sheep in society into following them with stuff that sounds good but really is totally destructive to society.
I don't think that those with an authoritarian mindset necessarily readily and willingly follow a fascist leader. Both Mussolini and Hitler drew mostly the disaffected and disenfranchised--that is the sort of losers, mostly male, in society that think they've been wronged. That is, the sort that loves being in Antifa, a neo-Nazi, or lives in a semi-fantasy of how things should be for them.

...negroes....

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Yes. My guess is the Catholic Church is behind the 'caravans' that head north from Central America. 'Birth Control' ... isn't part of the Program.

Actually, it's often a radical Leftist, Marxist group called Pueblos sin Fronteras.

Who's Pueblo Sin Fronteras, the group behind the migrant caravan that drew Trump's ire?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/who-s-behind-migrant-caravan-drew-trump-s-ire-n862566

https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/pueblo-sin-fronteras/

Pueblo Sin Fronteras, group that escorts migrant caravans to U.S. border, draws scrutiny

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/23/pueblo-sin-fronteras-group-escorts-migrant-caravan/

The group includes the usual assortment of far-Left radicals, Marxists, actual terrorists, and other assorted haters on the radical Left

Typical PSF grafitti mixed in with Antifa whom they associate with.

The MSM here largely ignores PSF involvement because it makes the whole illegal immigration thing look even worse.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

I went and found a copy of the F-scale test these yo-yo's used. It's typical semi-bullshit. But see how you do on it.

My score: (higher total = more authoritarian)

https://www.idrlabs.com/f-scale/test.php

See how you do.

I'm 5.4% less authoritarian than average. Such tests can be useful like a "rule of thumb" or an indicator, but more exact testing is needed to obtain more accurate results. Did you take the Fascist Test? https://www.idrlabs.com/fascism/test.php

Explanation of Facets:
Conventionalism
Rigid adherence to conventional, middle-class values.

Your Score: Low

Authoritarian Submission
Submissive, uncritical attitude towards the idealized authorities of the group.

Your Score: Average

Authoritarian Aggression
Tendency to be alert to, condemn, reject, and to want to punish people who violate conventional values.

Your Score: Average

Anti-Intraception
Opposition to the subjective and the imaginative, as well as a dislike of abstract art and tender-minded people.

Your Score: Low

Superstition-Stereotypy
Superstitious beliefs about the determinants of the individual's fate and the disposition to think in rigid categories.

Your Score: Low

Power-Toughness
Preoccupation with dominance-submission and leader-follower dynamics, as well as identification with power figures and the tendency to want to assert strength and toughness.

Your Score: Low

Destructiveness-Cynicism
Generalized hostility to things not in line with one's personal values, and the devaluation of human life and tendencies.

Your Score: High

Projectivity
Disposition to suspect that wild and dangerous things go behind closed doors, that one's group is losing control and that traditional society is headed towards destruction.

Your Score: Very Low

Anti-Degeneracy
Concern with the sexual "goings-on" of others and resistance to sexual degeneracy within one’s group.

Your Score: Very Low

Total Score
Your total F score, meaning your receptivity to authoritarian/fascist beliefs.

For another approach to testing for fascist beliefs, see our Fascism Test.

Your Score: Low

 

[Tranquillus in Exile]

power mad individuals who get into power and then use persuasion and popularity to lull the majority of sheep in society into following them

Does that bring anyone to mind? With one small change, perhaps: instead of power per se, adulation.


I scored 30% on the test.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Does that bring anyone to mind? With one small change, perhaps: instead of power per se, adulation.


I scored 30% on the test.

AOC? Pelosi? Obama?

 

[PostmodernProphet]

The Christian right has been intertwined with American conservatism for decades, culminating in the Trump era.

don't be silly......we have a long way to go before culmination....

 

[Hawkeye10]

The WOKE are hard core authoritarian abusers.

 

[BidenPresident]

The WOKE are hard core authoritarian abusers.

Wow.

 

[Nordberg]

I am not an authoritarian, I am a liberal democrat. Trumpys and the right are authoritarian. So are Nzis and Fascists.

 

[McRocket]

Religion is always authoritarian. But we are seeing the right wing nationalists using religion to gain power. Trump praised fascists as good people.

There are thousands or religions.

Though many are.

Not ALL of them are authoritarian based.