To impeach, or not to impeach

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(10-08-2019, 08:56 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: *It may be ironic, but right-wingers are far more likely to defend roguish figures.

 https://theauthoritarians.org/Downloads/...arians.pdf

Quote:So (to foreshadow later chapters a little) suppose you are a completely
unethical, dishonest, power-hungry, dirt-bag, scum-bucket politician who will say
whatever he has to say to get elected. (I apologize for putting you in this role, but it
will only last for one more sentence.) Whom are you going to try to lead, high RWAs
or low RWAs? Isn’t it obvious? The easy-sell high RWAs will open up their arms and
wallets to you if you just sing their song, however poor your credibility. Those crabby
low RWAs, on the other hand, will eye you warily when your credibility is suspect
because you sing their song? So the scum-bucket politicians will usually head for the
right-wing authoritarians, because the RWAs hunger for social endorsement of their
beliefs so much they’re apt to trust anyone who tells them they’re right. Heck, Adolf
Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany running on a law-and-order platform just
a few years after he tried to overthrow the government through an armed insurrection.

You sometimes hear that paranoia runs at a gallop in “right-wingers”. But
maybe you can see how that’s an oversimplification. Authoritarian followers are
highly suspicious of their many out-groups; but they are credulous to the point of
self-delusion when it comes to their in-groups. So (in another experiment I ran) subjects
were told a Christian Crusade was coming to town led by a TV evangelist. The
evangelist (the subjects were further told), knowing that people would give more
money at the end of the evening if he gave them the kind of service they liked, asked
around to see what that might be. Finding out that folks in your city liked a “personal
testimonial” crusade, he gave them one featuring his own emotional testimonial to
Jesus’ saving grace. How sincere do you think he was? Most subjects had their doubts,
given the circumstances. But High RWAs almost always trusted him.

(RWA = right-wing authoritarian, an abbreviation that the author uses 439 times in his paper).

I know your content well, and Right-Wing Authoritarian (RWA) describes you well.

Yes, I'm a lowly RWA  as mentioned above, a lowly RWA with common sense and good instincts and a broader range of knowledge and understanding that most Progressives educated by Progressives primarily for the use of Progressives don't seem to have these days. You don't believe me then read it again. You don't believe what I have to say about Progressives is true then start reading posts by Progressives. 

I already told you that I'm not a fan of Trump. Trump has to do more than just look good and sound sharp and tell us what we want to hear in front of the national camera's to impress us. He can tell us there are parts of the country that are turning to shit because we are able to see the parts of the country that are turning to shit these days. He can tell us that there are foreign criminals mixed in with the illegals entering the country. He can point out a partisan judge directly affiliated with a social justice group and even refer to him as a Mexican. He can do so because he's not telling us anything we don't already know or have seen in real life. What you have to do is pray the wrong person isn't killed by the foolishness/clueless behavior or by some Progressive judge or some Progressive court. Why??? That's simple, most Americans no longer view them as American courts these days. Yes, the Progressives are in deep shit here and it's only the Progressive's who don't seem to realize it or seem to care much about it. Yes, right wingers aren't afraid to remind it's chosen party who is really in charge and let them see what happens to them when they fail at something important to us.