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Author, 'Red Pill, Blue Pill: How to Counteract the Conspiracy Theories That Are Killing Us' (Prometheus, 2020). Staff writer @DailyKos. I block shitheads.

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    1. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 5 Sep 2018

      24) The remaining two clusters are Authoritarian Aggression – directed at anyone who fails to appropriately submit, or any leader deemed illegitimate – and Conventionalism, the belief that people with their views represent the “real mainstream.”

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    2. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 5 Sep 2018

      25) These clusters combine to create a series of identifiable traits, many of which fit libertarians to a T, particularly in their real-life behaviors: Compartmentalized thinking. A high tolerance for bigotry, both in action and rhetorically. A tendency toward conspiracism.

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    3. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 5 Sep 2018

      26) But the defining trait of authoritarian personalities, both followers and leaders, is also a defining trait of libertarians: A contempt for the principles of equality, and a prevailing belief that inequality is the natural state of things, which should not be undermined.

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    4. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 5 Sep 2018

      27) This is where compartmentalized thinking plays an important role. This is the psychological device by which people are able to cope with the cognitive dissonance that naturally arises when a person holds two apparently contradictory beliefs simultaneously.

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    5. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 5 Sep 2018

      28) So now we have the spectacle of libertarians who ardently support an overt authoritarian as president, and are fans of a Russian premier whose authoritarianism is being spread throughout Europe in the form of anti-LGBT/anti-immigrant white nationalism.

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    6. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 5 Sep 2018

      29) We have anti-government militiamen who line up behind the same regimes and demand utter fealty to his government. We have far-right Proud Boys who violently respond to anyone who dares to exercise their own free-speech rights by protesting them.

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    7. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 5 Sep 2018

      30) This is all because compartmentalization produces a mindset in which only their point of view is deemed legitimate. It’s all “free speech for me, and none for thee.” Any objection to their views, or decision to deplatform their bigotry, is deemed an attempt to oppression

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    8. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 5 Sep 2018

      31) We have a generation of young men lining up to fanatically defend an authoritarian ideologue like Jordan Peterson, who claims on the one hand to be all about individual rights but promotes the values of male patriarchy.https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/evqekn/the-fundamental-errors-of-jordan-peterson …

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    9. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 5 Sep 2018

      32) Peterson’s recent rants about how “it is only the individual who suffers” are a case in point. It’s abject nonsense. Families suffer, especially when one of their members do. Communities can suffer. Whole nations suffer during wartime. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvBm0ZUfe7I …

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    10. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 5 Sep 2018

      33) This is simple, basic empathy, the foundation of all relationships and the communitarian values that have always sustained humans as a species. I mean, hasn’t Peterson ever listened to Sam and Dave? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T246rhSoHes …

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      David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 5 Sep 2018

      32) Ultimately, libertarianism is a kind of grift, getting the rubes to focus on the shiny object of “individual liberties” on the one hand while hiding the deep, latent authoritarianism inherent in its incoherent philosophy.

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        2. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 5 Sep 2018

          35) Alas, we are awash in it – not just in the form of the radical right, but throughout American society. Libertarianism is phenomenally popular in the software world. It’s probably the dominant force in the modern conservative movement. Paul Ryan is a Rand acolyte.

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        3. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 5 Sep 2018

          36) You find it throughout media. Witness the recent dispute over Steve Bannon’s appearance at the New Yorker Festival, where his defenders posed it as a simple matter of the “marketplace of ideas”, as though fraudulent ideas are not bad goods that destroy that marketplace.

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        4. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 5 Sep 2018

          37) Mind you, I’m not entirely hostile to some of the ideas contained in libertarianism. I do value individual rights and initiative and think they’re important. I just believe they need to be balanced with the values of communitarianism and empathy and basic decency.

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        5. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 5 Sep 2018

          38) But we have to end the illusion that it is not fundamentally authoritarian. Because authoritarianism, and its rise in the age of Trump, is the single greatest challenge American democracy has ever faced from within.http://theconversation.com/trumps-america-and-the-rise-of-the-authoritarian-personality-72770 …

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        6. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 5 Sep 2018

          39) We’ll never be able to meet that challenge if we permit this illusion to persist. This really is a matter of survival. #30 @threadreaderapp unroll please

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        1. Kevin O  🛹‏ @keystonekabes 5 Sep 2018
          Replying to @DavidNeiwert

          I feel you. Early in adulthood libertarianism was very attractive for the focus on liberty for the individual but as I grew up I realized there was no corresponding recognition of the responsibilities and duties of a free citizen.

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        1. "mjfshoulderdemon"‏ @mjfgates 6 Sep 2018
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          I've seen several people make the point that libertarianism is all about protecting the factory owner's individual right to oppress his employees. Then again, IIRC you're one of those people, so it's probably not a revelation :)

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        2. Lucifer aka Mark Ledger‏ @MarkLedger20 8 Sep 2018
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          Yeah because no one on the right has ever made villifying comments about those on the left... except like constantly. As for Hillary, who cares?

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