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To: Ilaine who wrote (24166)7/15/2006 1:55:35 PM
From: Lane3  Respond to of 541184
 
But the argument that conservatives have some special propensity to be authoritarians can be easily dismissed by looking at history,

For the record, he said "social" conservatives. Not that that changes your argument, just an observation.



To: Ilaine who wrote (24166)7/15/2006 2:24:53 PM
From: Mary Cluney  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 541184
 
But the argument that conservatives have some special propensity to be authoritarians

I once had a physics professor getting lost on proving a fundamental physics theorem (that was a long time ago) and erased what he had written on the blackboard (it was black in those days) and declared that it was intuitively obvious.

Dean's argument does not have to be proven. It is intuitively obvious <ggg>.