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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat is it about these so called patriots, that when they are
called to defend the methods they used to "save the country," don't recall?
They seem to put up a strong voice to keep us from leading them to ruin, but fold in front of the opportunity to justify their actions.
You would think they would be proud of their revolution regardless of the means.
I have not heard any questioning along those lines.
AllaN01Bear
(18,380 posts)ret5hd
(20,518 posts)they CAN'T explain it to themselves, much less anyone else!
Their belief in "conventionalism" and submission to authority is directly contradicted by power and destructiveness...and they can't even see it.
The section that was most enlightening to me was #4 Anti-intraception (an objection to the subjective, the imaginative, the tender minded)
1. Conventionalism 17:49
2. Authoritarian Submission 18:09
3. Authoritarian Aggression 18:44
4. Anti-intraception 19:12
5. Stereotypy 19:39
6. Power and Toughness 20:14
7. Destructiveness and Cynicism 21:07
8. Projectivity 21:32
9. 'Sex' 22:14
cachukis
(2,269 posts)of the personality perspective was still troubling.
People pick up these traits at an early age. Without the parental frown across the society, we have to figure out how to replace the habits of excuse making.
Daunting.
doc03
(35,363 posts)realize you were going 70 in a 35 zone, I should have said I don't recall or the 5th. I wouldn't have got a ticket.
usonian
(9,860 posts)Words are just used for effect, dividing the cult members from "those others", and they frequently backtrack and contradict.
NOTHING MATTERS but the survival of the cult and its fearless (fearful) leader.
I keep posting on this matter. Here's the latest (with a poem!)
https://democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=17502657
Example: "Christian Nazionalism"