I believe i answered 90% of them, and now I am confidant neither one of you could go one on one with me in a debate.
Are you claiming at this point that you have answered 90 percent of the questions put to you in this thread?
You see, this is what happens to anyone who must distort reality in order to fit it into their ideology. It isn't you Beenthere, it is the majority of the right. One of the few questions you actually answered was that you were not a right wing authoritarian.
Here are some of the attributes of a RWA:
1: Faulty reasoning -- RWAs are more likely to:
- Make many incorrect inferences from evidence.
- Hold contradictory ideas leading them to speak out of both sides of their mouths.
- Uncritically accept that many problems are our most serious problem.
- Uncritically accept insufficient evidence that supports their beliefs.
- Uncritically trust people who tell them what they want to hear.
- Use many double standards in their thinking and judgements.
2: Hostility Toward Outgroups -- RWAs are more likely to:
- Weaken constitutional guarantees of liberty, such as the Bill of Rights.
- Punish severely common criminals in a role-playing situation.
- Admit they get personal pleasure from punishing such people.
- Be prejudiced against many racial, ethnic, nationalistic, and linguistic minorities.
- Be hostile toward homosexuals.
- Support gay-bashing.
- Volunteer to help the government persecute almost anyone.
- Be mean-spirited toward those who have made mistakes and suffered.
3: Profound Character Flaws -- RWAs are more likely to:
- Be dogmatic.
- Be zealots.
- Be hypocrites.
- Be bullies when they have power over others.
- Help cause and inflame intergroup conflict.
- Seek dominance over others by being competitive and destructive in situations requiring cooperation.
4: Blindness To Ones Own Failings -- RWAs are more likely to:
- Believe they have no personal failings.
- Avoid learning about their personal failings.
- Be highly self-righteous.
- Use religion to erase guilt over their acts and to maintain their self-righteousness.
Now certainly no one has all of these traits and neither have you, but the point here is that in order to overlay one's ideology onto reality, the authoritarian must bend that reality. If you have the belief that you have answered 90 percent of all of the questions posted to you then you will have had to do just that.
It is impossible for a true RWA to respond that he is one, just as it is impossible for them to assess their ideology objectively.
Why did you create a thread in which you would answer all questions if you did not intend to do so?
