PeterS

The research suggests that when intolerant white people fear democracy may benefit marginalized people, they abandon their commitment to democracy.

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-effect-new-study-connects-white-american-intolerance-support-authoritarianism-ncna877886

Since the founding of the United States, politicians and pundits have warned that partisanship is a danger to democracy. George Washington, in his Farewell Address, worried that political parties, or factions, could "allow cunning, ambitious and unprincipled men" to rise to power and subvert democracy. More recently, many political observers are concerned that increasing political polarization on left and right makes compromise impossible, and leads to the destruction of democratic norms and institutions.

A new study, however, suggests that the main threat to our democracy may not be the hardening of political ideology, but rather the hardening of one particular political ideology. Political scientists Steven V. Miller of Clemson and Nicholas T. Davis of Texas A&M have released a working paper titled "White Outgroup Intolerance and Declining Support for American Democracy." Their study finds a correlation between w***e A******n's intolerance, and support for authoritarian rule. In other words, when intolerant white people fear democracy may benefit marginalized people, they abandon their commitment to democracy.

In other words, when intolerant white people fear democracy may benefit marginalized people, they abandon their commitment to democracy.

Miller and Davis used information from the World Values Survey, a research project organized by a worldwide network of social scientists which polls individuals in numerous countries on a wide range of beliefs and values. Based on surveys from the United States, the authors found that white people who did not want to have immigrants or people of different races living next door to them were more likely to be supportive of authoritarianism. For instance, people who said they did not want to live next door to immigrants or to people of another race were more supportive of the idea of military rule, or of a strongman-type leader who could ignore legislatures and e******n results.

The World Values Survey data used is from the period 1995 to 2011 — well before Donald Trump's 2016 run for president. It suggests, though, that Trump's bigotry and his authoritarianism are not separate problems, but are intertwined. When Trump calls Mexicans "rapists," and when he praises authoritarian leaders, he is appealing to the same v**ers.

Miller and Davis' paper quotes alt right, neo-f*****t leader Richard Spencer, who in a 2013 speech declared: "We need an ethno-state so that our people can ‘come home again’… We must give up the false dreams of e******y and democracy." Ethnic cleansing is impossible as long as marginalized people have enough v**es to stop it. But this roadblock disappears if you get rid of democracy. Spencer understands that white rule in the current era essentially requires totalitarianism. That's the logic of f*****m.

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73STNGLKABEE

YES!, intolerant of i******s flooding into our open border.gotta a prob with that? That's too goddamn bad, go sh#t in your hat.

buffalo Loc: Texas

Miller and Davis are full of schit and moonbats like petersucker that have trump derangement syndrome eat their crap. I am no fan of trumpy's, but the intolerance of the supposedly tolerant moonbats is pure unadulterated hypocrisy. Moonbats are not at all different from some self-proclaimed right-wingnut people who do the same. But the difference is—or at least is supposed to be—that moonbats profess the ideology of the open mind. They have become anything but.

It is obvious that moonbats are more authoritarian. That's why they oppose the Bill of Rights, it's the only thing standing between them and their goal of minority rule and the erasure of anything resembling "Whiteness".