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KY_EnviroGuy

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14. Most are money-driven in my experience and....
Sun Nov 4, 2018, 12:51 AM
Nov 2018

are prone to be somewhat selfish, self-centered, authoritarian, and tribal in nature. There never seems to enough money and power to satisfy many of them, and it's contagious.

Some of those characteristics didn't shine until I knew them for a while and the extroverts among them can be a pain in the ass.

One of the most predominant characteristics researchers found among right-leaning citizenry was the deeply ingrained need for a rigid authoritarian power structure in their lives from bottom to the top.....from parents to clergy to company officers to politicians, and finally to a god-figure.

I believe psychologist have confirmed most of that in studies........

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