The security apparatus HATED when I properly identified authoritarian personality characteristics in a career spook and lifelong devout white supremacist using Adorno et al.'s California F-Scale (the F, of course, stood for fascism and the reasons why some people support fascism was incredibly relevant to academics at Berkeley who had fled the atrocities of the Third Reich). Of course, such hostility to analysis and intraception just confirmed his authoritarian personality.
The unfortunate reality is that I have been punished my entire life for properly opposing authoritarianism, fascism, and bigotry by horrific ignoramuses.
"In a 2009 book, Marc J. Hetherington and Jonathan D. Weiler identified evangelical Protestants as the most authoritarian of voting blocs in the United States. Furthermore, the former Confederate states (i.e. "the South") showed higher levels of authoritarianism than the rest. Rural populations tend to be more authoritarian than urban ones. People who preferred simple problems to complex ones, had less formal education, and those scoring lower in political knowledge also tended to score higher in authoritarianism."
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