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The best way to find out what a word means is to look at a simple dictionary definition. This one works well;

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Authoritarianism ; the enforcement or advocacy of strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom.

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It doesn't take a thick book dreamed up on a college campus to understand it any better.Gun control is the opener to a long list of additional authoritarian mandates from a government. History is full of examples. There is a danger that it will preclude new climate change authority, new restrictions on fossil fuel use, etc.The U.S. government recently hired 87,000 new IRS agents. That is additional authoritarianism.It looks like this book is a liberal dance to make recently out-in-the-open perversions to be considered "freedoms", and any questioning of it to be an infringement on freedom, or authoritarian. I don't have time for all that tonight. I might give it a try sometime, but the questions are obviously loaded, to show someone like me to be more of an authoritarian than a climate change fanatic, or gun control fanatic. Of course, it will show Trump as a terrible authoritarian, the first one in world history to advocate that the general public remain armed. But it won't mention that part. Of course, and it won't mention Green New Deal authoritarianism. Not a surprise, another Watergate guy, G.Gordon Liddy, an actual conservative, called John Dean a rat several times on his talk radio show back in the 90's. Not surprised that Dean would hate Republicans.

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Robert Anthony Altemeyer (born 6 June 1940) is a retired Professor of Psychology at the University of Manitoba.[1][2] Altemeyer also produced the right-wing authoritarianism scale, or RWA Scale,[3] as well as the related left-wing authoritarianism scale, or LWA Scale.[4]

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Bob Altemeyer - Wikipedia The irony at this funny place can get thick as a brick sometimes. And you believe that? OF COURSE IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH POLITICS! When people hear "right wing", they don't think of politics do they? I love this place! This book is obviously nothing but Democrat fringe entertainment. I sure do, thank you very much!

Taq brought up "laws" to address the fossil fuel issue. I wasn't referring to non-related laws like drugs or explosives. I was referring to his, or your, propositions for laws to deal with the fossil fuel issue. You know, authoritarian laws. They often do, when authoritarian laws do things like deny people the ability to register their cars because they don't pass climate change testing. Policemen who pull unregistered cars over carry guns.​

Emissions laws are not authoritarian. These laws are doing exactly what the Constitution spelled out its purpose is. This is the part RWNJs ignore.

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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

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High-RWAs operate almost constantly on fear and hate. While everybody experiences and reacts through fear at one time or another, high-RWAs do so almost constantly such that they are forever surrounded by horrific existential threats like people saying "Happy Holidays". I seem to recall it was Roger Ailes who described the FOX News content that he wanted to see as "whatever would scare your grandfather."

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Climate change alarmists operate almost constantly on fear (climate change) and hate. (of Republicans) They are forever surrounded by horrific existential threats of climate change.

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High-RWAs divide the world between "us" and "them" while viewing "them" as the mortal enemies of "us".

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Pot, meet kettle. It seems like a lot of Altemeyer's philosophy is to transfer Democrat characteristics on Republicans.

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While authoritarian leaders are normally not high-RWA, they do turn to high-RWA followers as "low-hanging fruit" who are so easy to organize into an army of mindless sheeple who will follow you anywhere.

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A lot of Democrat voters are terrified of climate change, and will follow oil company hating Democrats anywhere.

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"Tell a high-RWA that you believe in what he does and he'll believe you and follow you. Tell that to a low-RWA and he will not believe you." That is why Republicans (typically high-RWA) will follow Dear Leader to the end, whereas Democrats (typically low-RWA) are nearly as hard to herd than cats.

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Biden gets no criticism from the news media. The wide open southern border issue was completely covered up in their news reports months before the last election. There's never been a better example of sheeple following their dear leader (Biden) to the end. The Biden thread here has been dead since summer. He must be perfect!

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"Republicans fall in lock-step. Democrats fall in love."
Low-RWAs tend to view others in society as being fellow members of that society, holding the view that we are all in the same boat so we all need to work together for our common goals and benefit.

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Yes, the "common good", COMMUNISM.

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High-RWAs view others in society as the "them" enemy and conduct themselves accordingly.
NOTE: high-RWAs tend to seek to punish the victims of wrong-doing or disasters. Consider Republicans voting against aid for hurricane victims in Puerto Rico and NY/NJ (Hurricane Sandy), whereas Democrats vote for hurricane disaster aid for red states.

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Yes, GROW THE GOVERNMENT.

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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

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The following is the part that Democrats ignore;

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“With respect to the two words general welfare, I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.” Thomas Jefferson.

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Thomas Jefferson Rejects the Power of Congress to “Do Whatever Evil They Please” | Tenth Amendment Center

Thomas Jefferson never said or wrote those words. I wonder if you are able to figure out who did write them.
Even so it does not support you in any way. I know of no one that thinks that clause overrides everything. That would be stupid. The writer is not saying general welfare is a throw away term and not a purpose of the Constitution, but like everything else there are limits. These limits are powers outlined in the Constitution.I know. Understanding what words mean is hard.

How is there a difference? So you're another right-wing nut who doesn't know what authoritarian means. People are also denied the ability to register cars that are unsafe to be on the road. Climate-change regulations are just another part of safety regulations. Newsflash! Several police forces are now using a new invention - policewomen.​

What makes them authoritarian? How is that authoritarian?

WHAT?????? Enforcing laws is authoritarianism? What are you smoking?Every country enforces their laws. Is every country authoritarian? What is in the Green New Deal that you find authoritarian?

So do zookeepers. "Don't put your hand in the cages."There are good reasons to warn people about dangerous things.

Let me see if I understand the right wing view on things.Authoritarianism is where a country makes laws and then puts people in charge of making sure people don't break those laws. Therefore, every country on the face of the Earth is authoritarian.What right wingers think our government should do is just let people pollute as much as they want. Dump tons of radioactive waste into every river system on the continent? Sure, go for it. After all, we can't get in the way of personal freedoms. That would be authoritarianism. Let factories flood our ground water with carcinogens? Sure, why not? They should be free to do whatever they want, right? Let people kill whomever they want? Absolutely!! People should be able to do whatever they want. Cross the border and get a job? Absolutely, that's a personal freedom, right? It would be authoritarian to tell people they couldn't.If you want to understand what the USofA would look like if these type of right wingers were in charge, just watch any popular post-apocalyptic show you know of where there's no laws and no police. That's what they want, apparently.

Watch the Social Dilemma. It's a good documentary

Relevance?

But irrelevant to this topic.