I think we need a mighty and liberal leader but that liberalism would bar silencing anyone or banning traditional values. I also think people should trust the proper authorities but who doesn't? We just disagree on what they are.
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No-one says we need a weak and illiberal leader and to trust improper/invalid authorities. It's other people who think they want that because they disagree on the worth of their leaders and authorities.
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The scale items seem really poor. I also get frustrated at the US definition of "Liberalism" which seems to mean something totally different. Not helpful. Liberalism and authoritarianism correlated?
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I suspect that is the difference. It doesn't make much sense with an English sense of liberalism.
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I need to read the full article, but looking at the scale this seems like a poor study- seems like a biased measure.
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This is what I have been commenting on too. The silencing and destroying of dissent is authoritarian but not thinking that leaders should be strong and liberal and that people should believe proper authorities.
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People may be inclined to want to force their own worldview on people in general. No doubt in my mind the left do this too. But any decent measure would have items that aren't so charged- ask someone their political beliefs 1/2
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in my view is to develop an ideologically neutral authoritarianism scale focusing on attitudes towards political opponents and towards differentially authoritarian methods of advancing one's political goals, such speech restrictions for one's pol. adversaries. /3
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