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What is Authoritarianism?
Authoritarianism is something authoritarian followers and authoritarian
leaders cook up between themselves. It happens when the followers submit too
much to the leaders, trust them too much, and give them too much leeway to do
whatever they want--which often is something undemocratic, tyrannical and
brutal. In my day, authoritarian fascist and authoritarian communist dictatorships
posed the biggest threats to democracies, and eventually lost to them in wars
both hot and cold. But authoritarianism itself has not disappeared, and I=m going
to present the case in this book that the greatest threat to American democracy
today arises from a militant authoritarianism that has become a cancer upon the
nation.
We know an awful lot about authoritarian followers. In one way or
another, hundreds of social scientists have studied them since World War II. We
have a pretty good idea of who they are, where they come from, and what makes
them tick. By comparison, we know little about authoritarian leaders because we
only recently started studying them. That may seem strange, but how hard is it to
figure out why someone would like to have massive amounts of power? The
psychological mystery has always been, why would someone prefer a
dictatorship to freedom? So social scientists have focused on the followers, who
are seen as the main, underlying problem. 

Waarom volgt het overgrote merendeel van de mensen het pad wat door door leiderschap (Lees regeringen, overheden) wordt uitgestippeld?
Waarom wordt het kleine deel van de mensen die een mening verkondigen die hiervan afwijkt, gezien als o.a. complotdenkers, idioten of andere termen die men voor deze groep bedenkt?
Waarom is religie een alibi voor authoritair handelen?

Lees dit boek om hierin meer inzicht te krijgen.
Zeker in deze tijd heel aktueel.