This testing reveals, in varying degrees, that social dominators (authoritarian leaders) have the following recurring traits: They’re typically men; they are dominating; they oppose equality; they are desirous of personal power; they are amoral, intimidating and bullying, faintly hedonistic, vengeful, pitiless, exploitive, manipulative, and dishonest; they will cheat to win; they are highly prejudiced (racist, sexist, and/or homophobic), mean-spirited, militant, and nationalistic; they tell others what they want to hear, take advantage of “suckers,” and specialize in creating false images to sell themselves.I think we already know the answer to whether Walker is a "Double High." That excerpt describes Fitzwalkerstan to a tee.
They may or may not be religious, but usually they are both political and economic conservatives and/or Republicans.
In turn, recurring traits that, in varying degrees, are found in authoritarian followers—a group that includes both men and women—are as follows: They are submissive to authority but aggressive on that authority’s behalf. They are conventional and highly religious, with moderate to little education. They trust untrustworthy authorities, exhibit prejudice (particularly against homosexuals, women and followers of religions other than their own), and are mean-spirited, narrow-minded, intolerant, bullying, zealous, dogmatic, and uncritical toward chosen authority. Moreover, they are hypocritical, inconsistent and contradictory, prone to panic easily, highly self-righteous, and moralistic. They are strict disciplinarians, and are severely punitive; they demand loyalty and return it; they exhibit little self-awareness, and they, too, are usually political and economic conservatives and/or Republicans.
There is, however, another—and exceptional—type of authoritarian. When testing social dominators, scientists noticed an incomparable situation: They occasionally found persons who garnered high scores for their cold, calculating dominance, yet also gained high scores on the tests for submissive followers. How, it was asked, could the same person test high on both scales, since these traits are seemingly inconsistent? Social scientists labeled these people “Double Highs” because of their high scores on both testing scales.
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Is Scott Walker A Conservative Without A Conscience?
John Dean, who served as counsel to President Richard Nixon and was a key figure in the Watergate scandal, is taking a look at Scott Walker. In the first part of a two-part article series, he takes a look at what he calls "Double Highs", people who scored extremely high in both social dominant traits and for having submissive followers. Here is an excerpt explaining what he means by these terms:
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Fascinating
ReplyDeletein watergate, nixonian parlance, walker's honesty is,at best, a "modified, limited hang out."
ReplyDeleteOr.......he's just fiscally conservative, and knows where to cut the waste in government. Seems it takes a lot of educated people to find an alternate explanation, doesn't it?
ReplyDeleteC'mon. For one thing, when his waste commission idenfitied tens of millions of dollars of waste that could be saved, it turned out the commission was counting savings previously implemented by the Doyle administration. Meanwhile, just as he did when he was Milw County exec, Walker last year moved way over one hundred million dollars of state debt decades into the future through refinancing -- not paying them off as they came due but instead extending the loans way ahead into the future when he's long gone. Indeed, by stretching out interest payments long term, he thus added to the state's structural deficit. And for what? To improve schools, roads, mass transit, job training programs, health care? Nope, to give his business pal contributors a $143 million tax cut. See: http://bit.ly/f1hwkc
DeleteThe article is disturbing. I would like to see his reply to it.
DeleteBut his actions are not that of a fiscal conservative. Fiscal conservative is another euphemism of cutting in places you don't like. It's bs that people like racist fall for it.
ReplyDeleteHe has a balanced budget. That's fiscally conservative, isn't it? Democrats spend money in "places they like" and republicans cut spending in "places they don't like"...what's your point?
ReplyDeleteBy Walker's own admission, the budget isn't balanced.
DeleteHas Governor Scott Walker ever had to really pay taxes?
ReplyDeleteDon't Churches get to be "tax-free?"