that might resemble an original thought?

It seems that most of what you post is just cut and paste BS.

Try an original thought once in a while.

Or is that to much for your adolesecent brain to comprehend?

Whenever his posts are well written, content excluded of course, but legible and apparently well though out. Those are "copy and paste" from someone else published words.

OTOH, when it looks like the post was originally written in crayon and then scanned and posted, THOSE are Trannyboy's own words.

This is why I quit responding to him, except to ocassionally insult or mock him, over a year ago. You aren't really speaking to him, you are debating an author who for all you know, might have died three years ago. lol

but at least you were doing it on purpose, and didn't claim to be the author.

BTW, I was just guessing about the relevence. I saw the title and the fact that it was published in 2002 and didn't bother reading the article. Somehow, I doubt that I missed much.

The Evidence Establishes, without Question, that Republican Rule Is Dangerous: Why It Is High Time to Fix This Situation, For the Good of the Nation


The Problem with Electing Authoritarian Conservatives

John W. Dean, a FindLaw columnist, is a former counsel to the president

What is wrong with being an authoritarian conservative? Well, if you want to take the country where they do, nothing. "They would march America into a dictatorship and probably feel that things had improved as a result," Altemeyer told me. "The problem is that these authoritarian followers are much more active than the rest of the country. They have the mentality of 'old-time religion' on a crusade, and they generously give money, time and effort to the cause. They proselytize; they lick stamps; they put pressure on loved ones; and they revel in being loyal to a cohesive group of like thinkers. And they are so submissive to their leaders that they will believe and do virtually anything they are told. They are not going to let up and they are not going to go away."

I would nominate McCain's "Joe the Plumber" as a new poster-boy of the authoritarian followers. He is a believer, and he has signed on. On November 4, 2008, we will learn how many more Americans will join the ranks of the authoritarians.

Frankly, the fact that the pre-election polls are close - after eight years of authoritarian leadership from Bush and Cheney, and given its disastrous results - shows that many Americans either do not realize where a McCain/Palin presidency might take us, or they are happy to go there. Frankly, it scares the hell out of me, for there is only one way to deal with these conservative zealots: Keep them out of power.

This election should be a slam dunk for Barack Obama, who has run a masterful campaign. It was no small undertaking winning the nomination from Hillary Clinton, and in doing so, he has shown without any doubt (in my mind anyway) that he is not only qualified to be president, but that he might be a once-in-a-lifetime leader who can forever change the nation and the world for the better.





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John W. Dean, a FindLaw columnist, is a former counsel to the president.




http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20081031.html

Well, trannyboy copy and pasted something about Republican rule being dangerous, and it reminded me of this article that I read several years back.

It's worth a read. It shows some surprising statistics over Tory vs. Labour rule in the UK.

it still applies but we already know that OBAMA IS the PRESIDENT

set forth the traits of authoritarian leaders and followers, which have been distilled from a half-century of empirical research, during which thousands of people have voluntarily been interviewed by social scientists. The touch points in these somewhat-overlapping lists of character traits provide a clear picture of the characters of both John McCain and Sarah Palin.

McCain, especially, fits perfectly as an authoritarian leader. Such leaders possess most, if not all, of these traits:




•dominating
•opposes equality
•desirous of personal power
•amoral
•intimidating and bullying
•faintly hedonistic
•vengeful
•pitiless
•exploitive
•manipulative
•dishonest
•cheats to win
•highly prejudiced (racist, sexist, homophobic
•mean-spirited
•militant
•nationalistic
•tells others what they want to hear
•takes advantage of "suckers"
•specializes in creating false images to sell self
•may or may not be religious
•usually politically and economically conservative/Republican


Incidentally, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney also can be described by these well-defined and typical traits - which is why a McCain presidency is likely to be nearly identical to a Bush presidency.

Clearly, Sarah Palin also has some qualities typical of authoritarian leaders, not to mention almost all of the traits found among authoritarian followers. Specifically, such followers can be described as follows:




•submissive to authority
•aggressive on behalf of authority
•highly conventional in their behavior
•highly religious
•possessing moderate to little education
•trusting of untrustworthy authorities
•prejudiced (particularly against homosexuals and followers of religions other than their own)
•mean-spirited
•narrow-minded
•intolerant
•bullying
•zealous
•dogmatic
•uncritical toward chosen authority
•hypocritical
•inconsistent and contradictory
•prone to panic easily
•highly self-righteous
•moralistic
•strict disciplinarians
•severely punitive
•demanding loyalty and returning it
•possessing little self-awareness
•usually politically and economically conservative/Republican


The leading authority on right-wing authoritarianism, a man who devoted his career to developing hard empirical data about these people and their beliefs, is Robert Altemeyer. Altemeyer, a social scientist based in Canada, flushed out these typical character traits in decades of testing.

Altemeyer believes about 25 percent of the adult population in the United States is solidly authoritarian (with that group mostly composed of followers, and a small percentage of potential leaders). It is in these ranks of some 70 million that we find the core of the McCain/Palin supporters. They are people who are, in Altemeyer's words, are "so self-righteous, so ill-informed, and so dogmatic that nothing you can say or do will change their minds."

The Problem with Electing Authoritarian Conservatives

What is wrong with being an authoritarian conservative? Well, if you want to take the country where they do, nothing. "They would march America into a dictatorship and probably feel that things had improved as a result," Altemeyer told me. "The problem is that these authoritarian followers are much more active than the rest of the country. They have the mentality of 'old-time religion' on a crusade, and they generously give money, time and effort to the cause. They proselytize; they lick stamps; they put pressure on loved ones; and they revel in being loyal to a cohesive group of like thinkers. And they are so submissive to their leaders that they will believe and do virtually anything they are told. They are not going to let up and they are not going to go away."

I would nominate McCain's "Joe the Plumber" as a new poster-boy of the authoritarian followers. He is a believer, and he has signed on. On November 4, 2008, we will learn how many more Americans will join the ranks of the authoritarians.

Frankly, the fact that the pre-election polls are close - after eight years of authoritarian leadership from Bush and Cheney, and given its disastrous results - shows that many Americans either do not realize where a McCain/Palin presidency might take us, or they are happy to go there. Frankly, it scares the hell out of me, for there is only one way to deal with these conservative zealots: Keep them out of power.

This election should be a slam dunk for Barack Obama, who has run a masterful campaign. It was no small undertaking winning the nomination from Hillary Clinton, and in doing so, he has shown without any doubt (in my mind anyway) that he is not only qualified to be president, but that he might be a once-in-a-lifetime leader who can forever change the nation and the world for the better.

If Obama is rejected on November 4th for another authoritarian conservative like McCain, I must ask if Americans are sufficiently intelligent to competently govern themselves. I can understand authoritarian conservatives voting for McCain, for they know no better. It is well-understood that most everyone votes with his or her heart, not his or her head. Polls show that 81 percent of Americans "feel" (in their hearts and their heads) that our country is going the wrong way. How could anyone with such thoughts and feelings vote for more authoritarian conservatism, which has done so much to take the nation in the wrong direction?

We will all find out on (or about) November 5th.

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John W. Dean, a FindLaw columnist, is a former counsel to the president.





http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20081031.html

The less a party wants to mandate in law, the less authoritarian it is.  Converesly, the more a party wants to legislate, the more attoritarian it is.

By definition, every law mandates that a person do or not do something, so the party that wants the most laws in the party that wants to control your life the most.

People who "proselytize; they lick stamps [and] they put pressure on loved ones" are not mandating anything. They are urging people to do something, but if the person refuses, there is no consequence.

It is not "authoritarian" to say to a friend, "Will you do this for me?"  

It is authoritarian to say, "If you don't do this, you will go to jail."

Only the governement can do that, and when the gov does that, it is more authoritarian.

GAYGAMBLER is like faux news,I put a link/URL to the story & author


so you KNOW when I did not write the stremembermmber gaygambler is a neoconservative and he does not Democrats

I love it when you babble, xfean you sexy beast!  I am strangely attracted to you.  I think my brother is, too, although it's really your keen intellect he admires.  He is just too manly to admit it, while I am gay enough not to care.  I will dress like a tranny if you want!