Maybe Obama read this book.

[whyverne]

Maybe Obama read this book.

This is a free book that has been posted here before.

Bob Altemeyer's
The Authoritarians

http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/

It's about Right Wing Authoritarian followers. Altemeyer uses scientific studies to show that they are a part of every society. I'll use someone else's review since it's as good as mine would be.

Skeptic's Play
http://skepticsplay.blogspot.com/2008/06/authoritarians-reviewed.html

The most interesting part might be where Altemeyer suggests solutions to the problem. According to him, it would probably be ineffective to argue with these people directly. Instead, we should work with high RWAs (Right-Wing Authoritarians) towards common goals, since this lets them see outside of their community--high RWAs tend to feel a lot of pressure to be "normal", so we just need to show them. We should increase the visibility minorities. And we should promote higher education, which tends to decrease people's RWA scores. He also says it would help if we reduced fear-mongering, or if we taught kids to question authorities, but he doesn't think either of these things will realistically happen.

They're there. they're square, get used to it.

[Angry Dragon]

1. They have their god, they have their right wing leaders

what more do they need to tell them what to think??

[Catherina]

2. I think he read Ronald Reagan more. n/t

[veganlush]

3. that does offer some possible

explanation of the President's behavior....