Authoritarian ideology arises spontaneously more than economic doctrine taught in schools does
Evidence
I doubt that anyone ever taught them a system of responses to the many issues raised by the RWA Scale. And yet, those answers are better interconnected, more systematic than the economic ones. If you believe these politicians have economic ideologies, they have an even stronger one regarding authoritarian submission, authoritarian aggression, and conventionalism. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3477
Categorization
- QUESTION: If authoritarianism self-organizes without formal instruction while economics requires teaching, what developmental or personality mechanism generates it — and does that make it more entrenched?