Tag Archive for Authoritarianism

Research Shows Many American Conservative Republicans Suffer From Right-Wing Authoritarian Tendencies

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By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It will come as no surprise to college educated Democrats, liberal college professors and experienced journalists that American conservative Republicans who supported Donald Trump are subject to right-wing propaganda, political manipulation and suffer from authoritarian tendencies in the name of a mixed up anti-government philosophy based on a…

So Life Comes Down to This: A Trump Supreme Court Justice Who Doesn’t Even Believe in Democracy

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This Will Not Stand – The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  WASHINGTON, D.C. – Since October 15, 1957, I’ve been fortunate to live on this amazing planet Earth as a citizen of the great country of the United States of America. When I first came out kicking and screaming in that little hospital…

Trump Is Going Down and We Will Dance on His Grave

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The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — All over the district and beyond, there is a growing fantasy in the land among Democrats that Donald Trump is not only going to lose the 2020 election in a massive landslide, but that when he tries to cling to power anyway, he is…

White Supremacy Rises as a Political Factor in West North Carolina Congressional Race: A Microcosm of a Nation Divided

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By Glynn Wilson – ASHEVILLE, N.C. — In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, fall is in the air and the people are starting to pay attention to politics with less than 30 days to go before the election November 3. And just as white supremacy has come to the fore in Donald…

The Supreme Court is Now at Stake Too in the Monumental Election of 2020

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“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” — Mark Twain The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  Cool air in the wake of the wind and rain from Hurricane Sally has now cleared the smoke from wildfires out west mostly out of the Blue…

How Existential Anxiety Leads to Authoritarianism

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“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Part II: Case Studies — Donald Trump and George Wallace – “He who does not oppose evil, commands it to be done,” the great artist Leonardo Da Vinci once said. By…