Subjectivist wrote:Pardon me for asking, but what in the D party is anti authoritarian? They get us into as many wars as the R's, they pass thousands of laws and regulations restricting personal freedom just like the R's. I would call the D party many things, but never anti authoritarian!
The root word of "authoritarian" is authority, do you think really dirty hippies cum slacker millennials and antifa anarchists would be attracted to the party of authority?
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As in all things political, one's view of what is authoritarianism, depends on what one finds important. If you are pissed about, say, rules against smoking in restaurants, having your dog vaccinated for rabies, or maybe putting on your seatbelt then yeah, Ds are authoritarian. Nanny state and all that.
If on the other hand you view authoritarianism as the opposition to basic civil liberties like universal suffrage, equal rights, rule of law (as opposed to just "tough on crime") and delegitimizing democratic institutions, then you likely see Ds as, well, democratic rather than autocratic. See: "[the press is] the enemy of the people", "don't be so gentle when you put them in the car", "If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment", "We're running against a rigged system", oh and: "They're sending rapists" and on and on.
Not trying to diminish Ds penchant for big government. They are definitely for big rules that infringe on the income of the ownership, holding them responsible for the costs they try to offload on society : consumer protection, environmental regs, CAFE standards, etc.
Point being, I believe we have innate values that range along a spectrum, what I value is not what someone else may value even though we call it by the same name. But if I have to point that out to you, I'll never convince you will I?
Regardless here is the picture
Drawing on the work of many anthropologists (particularly Richard Shweder at the University of Chicago) and many evolutionary biologists and psychologists, my colleagues and I came to the conclusion that there are six best candidates for being the taste buds of the moral mind: Care/Harm, Fairness/Cheating, Liberty/Oppression, Loyalty/Betrayal, Authority/Subversion, and Sanctity/Degradation.
https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/2 ... -fairness/
ttp://www.ethicsdefined.org/the-problem ... -liberals/