32 percent of Americans believe a military regime or authoritarian leader would be a good way of governing the country.

They want their opinion mirrored back at them by someone in power so they don't 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.

To have others be told how to live, which is how they prefer to live already.

Regardless of if it's true, you shouldn't use that word.

However its all perspective, an intellectual disability is described as 30 points below average, because a 30 point difference is noticable.

So even just two people at the end of the first standard deviation would experience that.

Being three standard deviations above average isn't that rare, about 1 in 1200, about the same rate as people who transition oddly enough, so it's a good comparison.

If you're "lucky" enough to be over 145, about 84% of everyone else is at least 30 points below you.

It's like real life Idiocracy or old school Cassandra. Shit seems so simple but no one listens.

Even then bro, dont resort to that word.

It's their authoritarian dictator so they'll love it.

At some level, people just want a particular policy. It's silly to pretend a democracy where I never get what I want is going to be more attractive than a dictatorship where I get to unleash my libidinal id.

And you can't just blame this on religion. Religiosity has plummeted over the last 40 years, but we seem to be as accommodating towards fascism as ever.

Also fun fact:

Every tabletop scenario he ran (think like a UN version of Risk) in which the Authoritarians had control, they wiped out everyone with nuclear war including themselves.

You can pretty much ask almost any insane thing and it somehow always comes out to at least 30% of Americans.

I sometimes wonder if it'd always the same 30% and there just 30% idiots, or if that 30% spans multiple topics and groups of idiots and its actually higher like 60%

I mean, I imagine if someone like Bernie Sanders became Dictator for Life; the quality of life for 99.999% of Americans would improve; so purely in a thought-experiment kind of way, it works.

The issue with even the most benelovent dictatorships is the matter of succession.

Braindead, or supremely selfish and would love a regime that enforces their unpopular desires over the democratic choice?

If you check the poll it's not what you'd expect. The self-identified left had 25% support. The self-identified right had 29% support. The self-identified center had 37 PERCENT support. There's apparently a thirst for some strong authoritarian radical centrism.

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.

• Karl Marx

If you go far enough left, you get your guns back!

Doesn't look like keeping them is doing much either.

An overwhelming majority of California and New York leftists disagree with you and have neutered themselves in order to prevent black people from organizing during the segregation era protests and now the reason is for children's safety from school shooters.

What do you say to those people?

It was a disturbingly close call which side of WWII we were gonna land on. In 1939 the second-largest Nazi party in the world was right here in America.

Stupid people who don’t know how the system works think that they will someday be wearing the boot. They think because they kiss the boot that they’ll never be stomped.

Yeah, I like to call that the 10-80-10 principle. That's why it's so important to keep the arguments up for why we should vote Blue no matter who. 10% want to fuck everyone over. And they've managed to convince another 22% that they are right. We're all screwed if we don't get the 68% that aren't assholes to vote Blue.

I'm not sure I find the idea of a 4Channer with a wife plausible.

They could but that would be wrong since the split is only 4% between the left and right (L-25% and R - 29%).

I'm not sure they can read.

I hate a military dictatorship but to play devil's advocate: South Korea and Taiwan?

I'm not saying their transition to democracies was bloodless or clean but they managed. Those two are extreme examples and not models, one country built after a war that split the country in two, the other fleeing the mainland to create its own state. But I'm stretching to find a better example.

France under DeGaulle?

Edit to add: It's not an assertio, it's a question I don't know the answer to.

Thailand regularly has military coups.

Sparta

Not at all a coincidence.

I think I know which third it should be.

Bad news: the 1/3 authoritarian segment of society seems to be a human trait. Culture determines how the trait is expressed.

So fire them into the sun but statistically the hierarchically-minded, active-amygdala, contrarian and cruel segments of the genome will just always be there.

This is probably the primary challenge of the human condition: graduating from a troupe species with ling-refined tribal techniques for handling the problem individuals, to a noöspheric global species successfully coping with with emergent problems due to mass "civilizational" effects.

“Leftist military regime” is an oxygenated moron.

I agree with you. This is where I just throw my hands up and concede that this is the will of the people. Our democratic form of government affords people the freedom to choose to be sheep. Isn't it beautiful?

You really can't imagine that 32% of Americans are idiots? If anything, I'm relieved the number isn't higher.