The Authoritarians- published online

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By Bob Altemeyer, major source for John Deans' Conservatives without Conscience.

http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/

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A must read. What a benevalent act to put his book online for free to benefit history!

The Authoritarian Personality is what was discovered as the key trait of 'fascism receptivity.'
Here's a questionnaire from 1950 used to determine 'fascism receptivity' or the F-factor--
http://www.anesi.com/fscale.htm

Here are the traits measured by the questions--

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

Authoritarian Submission: Submissive, uncritical attitude toward idealized moral authorities of the ingroup.

Authoritarian Aggression: Tendency to be on the lookout for, and to condemn, reject, and punish people who violate conventional values.

Anti-intraception: Opposition to the subjective, the imaginative, the tender-minded.

Superstition and Stereotypy: The belief in mystical determinants of the individual's fate; the disposition to think in rigid categories.

Power and "Toughness": Preoccupation with the dominance-submission, strong-weak, leader-follower dimension; identification with power figures; overemphasis upon the conventionalized attributes of the ego; exaggerated assertion of strength and toughness.

Destructiveness and Cynicism: Generalized hostility, vilification of the human.

Projectivity: The disposition to believe that wild and dangerous things go on in the world; the projection outwards of unconscious emotional impulses.

Sex: Exaggerated concern with sexual "goings-on."

Ah, a perfect match for so-called mainstream media which has been co-opted and run by CIA and its assets for over fifty years.

So I recommend then following up by reading these two Data Dump threads to understand the history of how the US State Department and CIA worked after WWII to both develop and nurture the dreaded Authoritarian Personality as a much-desired component in the American Social Engine.

Angry followers, not compassionate thinkers, are the goal. What a surprise...not.
Here's Uncle Sam's efforts to bring Mein Kampf to this country--

1) OSS (WWII CIA) and Psychological Warfare
http://rigorousintuition.ca/board/viewtopic.php?t=9995

2) CIA and the Media, by Carl Bernstein 10/20/77 Rolling Stone
http://rigorousintuition.ca/board/viewtopic.php?t=8590