RE:
- "... they’d have enough spare time to use democratic processes to challenge the social order and collapse the British kingdom."
- "Too much democracy, Burke believed, was a dangerous thing: deadly to nations and a violation of evolution and nature itself."
- "Young people would cease to respect their elders, they warned. Women w…
- "... they’d have enough spare time to use democratic processes to challenge the social order and collapse the British kingdom."
- "Too much democracy, Burke believed, was a dangerous thing: deadly to nations and a violation of evolution and nature itself."
- "Young people would cease to respect their elders, they warned. Women would stop respecting (and depending on) their husbands. Minorities would begin making outrageous demands and set the country on fire."
- “ … the project of the Reagan Revolution was to dial back democracy while taking the middle class down a peg, …”
Authoritarian Social Hierarchy and Severe Punishment - Strong Moral Values of the Wealthy Class.
As John Dean and Professor Robert Altemeyer have documented the Republican Party is the Party for the authoritarian personality and its subclasses of followers, social dominators and double highs. As you and others have documented the Republican Party, and SCOTUS, are owned by, and protect and empower the wealthy class. The implication is that the wealthy represent the social dominators.
Professor Richard Wolff has documented that the authoritarian nature of Capitalism, like feudalism, is to put the wealthy class, social dominators, at the top of the capitalist economic system. From this leadership position they will maintain the right-wing authoritarian social hierarchy through punishment legalized by SCOTUS and the GQP - the GOP on authoritarian steroids.
As documented by the research of cognitive linguist, Professor George Lakoff, the authoritarian personality is nurtured within the Strict Father family model. This family model includes beliefs in an imagined social hierarchy - which is referenced by quotes from your article and listed above - and a belief in severe punishment to maintain that social hierarchy.
These two authoritarian core beliefs, or moral values, promote maintaining this social hierarchy by rewarding the wealthy at the top and punishing all others to keep them where the fit in the authoritarian ranking of inequality. The moral goal is to maximize inequality.
- “The plan was to declare war on labor unions so wages could slide down or at least remain frozen for a few decades; end free college across the nation so students would study in fear rather than be willing to protest; and increase the penalties Nixon had already put on drugs so they could use those laws against hippy antiwar protesters and Black people demanding participation in democracy.”
There is some truth to authoritarian fears. Those abused by the wealthy and their lackeys will revolt against the maximization of inequality driven by the moral values of social hierarchy and severe punishment.
As Professor Lakoff concludes from his research on cognitive linguistics, moral values like inequality and severe punishment as a primary teaching tool, drive the authoritarian policies of the strict father family model.
Where to start? Note to self: get Dean's most recent book. "Conservatives Without Conscience" saved my sanity along the way. Pretty sure my mother was a "double high." Absolutely daughter of "Strict Father." Enough with the personal. The wild card in mass social adjustment now is technology and media. We truly are still at the threshold of how our very brain function copes with "input", and the "input" itself is just the beginning of blink of an eye in terms of the historical time frames our biology previously had to cope with.
RE:
- "... they’d have enough spare time to use democratic processes to challenge the social order and collapse the British kingdom."
- "Too much democracy, Burke believed, was a dangerous thing: deadly to nations and a violation of evolution and nature itself."
- "Young people would cease to respect their elders, they warned. Women would stop respecting (and depending on) their husbands. Minorities would begin making outrageous demands and set the country on fire."
- “ … the project of the Reagan Revolution was to dial back democracy while taking the middle class down a peg, …”
Authoritarian Social Hierarchy and Severe Punishment - Strong Moral Values of the Wealthy Class.
As John Dean and Professor Robert Altemeyer have documented the Republican Party is the Party for the authoritarian personality and its subclasses of followers, social dominators and double highs. As you and others have documented the Republican Party, and SCOTUS, are owned by, and protect and empower the wealthy class. The implication is that the wealthy represent the social dominators.
Professor Richard Wolff has documented that the authoritarian nature of Capitalism, like feudalism, is to put the wealthy class, social dominators, at the top of the capitalist economic system. From this leadership position they will maintain the right-wing authoritarian social hierarchy through punishment legalized by SCOTUS and the GQP - the GOP on authoritarian steroids.
As documented by the research of cognitive linguist, Professor George Lakoff, the authoritarian personality is nurtured within the Strict Father family model. This family model includes beliefs in an imagined social hierarchy - which is referenced by quotes from your article and listed above - and a belief in severe punishment to maintain that social hierarchy.
These two authoritarian core beliefs, or moral values, promote maintaining this social hierarchy by rewarding the wealthy at the top and punishing all others to keep them where the fit in the authoritarian ranking of inequality. The moral goal is to maximize inequality.
- “The plan was to declare war on labor unions so wages could slide down or at least remain frozen for a few decades; end free college across the nation so students would study in fear rather than be willing to protest; and increase the penalties Nixon had already put on drugs so they could use those laws against hippy antiwar protesters and Black people demanding participation in democracy.”
There is some truth to authoritarian fears. Those abused by the wealthy and their lackeys will revolt against the maximization of inequality driven by the moral values of social hierarchy and severe punishment.
As Professor Lakoff concludes from his research on cognitive linguistics, moral values like inequality and severe punishment as a primary teaching tool, drive the authoritarian policies of the strict father family model.
Where to start? Note to self: get Dean's most recent book. "Conservatives Without Conscience" saved my sanity along the way. Pretty sure my mother was a "double high." Absolutely daughter of "Strict Father." Enough with the personal. The wild card in mass social adjustment now is technology and media. We truly are still at the threshold of how our very brain function copes with "input", and the "input" itself is just the beginning of blink of an eye in terms of the historical time frames our biology previously had to cope with.