Conservatives Without Conscience.

John Dean and Authoritarian Cultism - a Review
By: Glenn Greenwald.


In his new best selling book, Conservatives Without Conscience John Dean contends, and amply documents, that the "conservative" movement has become, at its core, an authoritarian movement composed of those with a psychological and emotional need to follow a strong authority figure which provides them a sense of moral clarity and a feeling of individual power, the absence of which creates fear and insecurity in the individuals who crave it. By definition, its followers’ devotion to authority and the movement’s own power is supreme, thereby overriding the consciences of its individual members and removing any intellectual and moral limits on what will be justified in defense of their movement.

Read more... (This links to the Glenn Greenwald review at CrooksandLiars.com)