• 🐱TheCat@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Authoritarian attitudes was the #1 predictor of Trump support if I recall.

    I haven’t lived through an authoritarian regime, but I lived through a terrible parent - so I’ve experienced the feeling of ‘oh shit the structure that governs my life is fucked up and I must escape’. I think that’s what made me anti-authoritarian.

    I often wonder if there’s a way to get people to shift away from authoritarianism. I think I get the appeal of ‘simple, easy, you don’t even have to think for yourself!’ - but everyone needs to recognize those are trap cards.

    • seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      The boot on the neck is fine, as long as you’re the one wearing the boot. But you can’t be sure that will always be true, can you?

      It also takes a different sort of person to say that there shouldn’t be a boot in the first place.