Not All Republicans Are Authoritarians

[Syrinx]

But All Authoritarians Are Republicans

[Union Thug]

1. but all of them are social-darwinists...

which is equally pathological.

[BlooInBloo]

2. To go along with authoritarianism is to BE authoritarian, in mine, and Kant's book....

(To see the correctness of my claim about Kant, think about the 2 (conceptually) elements that are absolutely required in an exercise of authority. Then think about the "positive" version of what Kant said about the specific case of lying.)

[originalpckelly]

3. You might want to put "In America"

in there somewhere, because there are some former resident's of the Soviet Union, whom might disagree with you.

[Syrinx]

5. it was implicit

[EST]

4. I presume you include Libertarians as a subset of republican?

[Syrinx]

6. it's complicated

Libertarians are like Republicans on a lot of issues, but like Democrats on some.

[tritsofme]

7. I don't believe that's true.

There is a sub-set of the left that is authoritarian as well, and these folks are definitely not Republican, and yet their means of achieving goals that we may ultimately support would be the antithesis of Democratic Party values.