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There is a classic

Orion — Mon, 02 May 2022 02:19:35 +0000

In reply to Large fractions of the American electorate report sympathy for authoritarian forms of government....

There is a classic sociology book called Quest for Community, which was followed up in the 2000s by the book Bowling Alone. One book theorizes that the reason for totalitarian ideologies was the desire for community that is in all humans. In Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam details that American atomization had led to a rotten individualist culture, with the bonds that used to bring people together frayed, something that's likely gotten only worse since it was published.

One of my friends up in Seattle complains that "no one is talking to me." He goes to work, something he managed to somehow find in that environment, does the work, comes home and that's it. There is nothing else. This is no way to live. Human beings are not robots. We spent most of our history in villages where community was strong and everyone knew one another. Every attempt to turn us in to robots will not lead to a libertarian utopia. It will always lead to this.

I noted that Latin American

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 01 May 2022 19:48:43 +0000

In reply to So it looks to me, as of 2017

I noted that Latin American culture seems to have the Caudillo landowner-strongman rancher as a key stereotype (even Doña Bárbara as a Venezuelan caudilla/strongwoman, and since possibly Latino immigration has added large numbers to the "low-education" "non-white" voters the last few decades, it might tilt this assumption when other non-white cultures may be less infatuated with this caudillo type. [of course the military in Latin America also tends to be quite a heavy presence as well.

So it looks to me, as of 2017

artappraiser — Sun, 01 May 2022 19:07:15 +0000

In reply to Large fractions of the American electorate report sympathy for authoritarian forms of government....

So it looks to me, as of 2017, that the more low-education voters you register and encourage to get out and vote, the more authoritarian government you will get. And that is even more true as regards non-white voters than white ones.