Study of letters to newspaper editors suggests Sept. 11 polarized country Other researchers have discovered that among other traits, people susceptible to authoritarian views tend to hold conventional middle-class values, are generally submissive to and uncritical of authorities and tend to look for, condemn and sometimes even punish those who violate the conventions, he said. Such people also tend to oppose imaginative and tender-minded others, think rigidly, identify with powerful figures, think cynically of humanity in general and show an exaggerated concern with sexual �goings-on.�

{bet ya five big ones they almost universally were corporally punished as kids. hard. pavlovian kickback. it's about that dark dark place in the soul where the bad stuff is, where it gets put. projection, submission, and fear, unreasoning fear seeking its explanation after the fact.}