Meanwhile, 44 percent backed the American tradition of competing branches of government as a model, if sometimes āfrustrating,ā system.
Why would people want to live under an authoritarianās thumb? Itās rooted, experts say, in a psychological need for securityāreal or perceivedāand a desire for conformity, a goal that becomes even more acute as the country undergoes dramatic demographic and social changes. People also like to obey a strong leader who will protect the groupāespecially if it is the ārightā group whose interests will be protected. Recall the Trump supporter who, during the 2019 government shutdown, complained, āHeās not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.ā
The people who dont want to be told how they live desperately want someone to tell them how to live.
They want their opinion mirrored back at them by someone in power so they donāt have to take responsibility for their own opinions.
A close friend of mine is a woman of color and her bosses want the same things from her. They wants to hear their opinion come out of someone with her skin tone so they feel justified and not responsible at the same time. I imagine these are similar phenomenon.
Nailed it, this šÆ
You just perfectly described the Candace Owens and Dave Rubin phenomenon.
They donāt want to be told how to live while simultaneously having someone force others to live like them.
To have others be told how to live, which is how they prefer to live already.
The people who donāt want to be told how to live want other people to be told how to live thinking theyāll be left alone.