"authors argue the nearly universal exclusion of left-wing features from previous descriptions of authoritarianism, with little consideration of LWA’s and RWA’s commonalities, has severely limited our ability to understand what authoritarianism truly IS"

https://twitter.com/aClassicLiberal/status/1377259056352595970?s=19

"How could the most rational ruling elite in history have fallen for the most dangerous toxin [conspiracies] in politics?": "In this new liberal world-view, progress has not just stalled. It is being wilfully undermined and reversed by clandestine means" bit.ly/2WQLLll

New study show that there's little difference between rightwing authoritarians (fascistoid identitarians) and leftwing authoritarians (fascistoid identitypolitics & socialist activists). Clarifying the Structure and Nature of Left-Wing Authoritarianism
bit.ly/3cELlXA These traits include a preference for social uniformity, prejudice toward different others, willingness to wield group authority to coerce behavior, cognitive rigidity, aggression toward perceived enemies, outsized concern for hierarchy, and moral absolutism.

Reposted. Haidt points out that scientists are now (postmodern) Progressives who believe that their moral values are the only legitimate, all others illegitimate. "Why so many..don't want social justice and don't trust scientists" bit.ly/29vqJP6






Yoram Hazony also explains why postmodern Progressives see all other moral values as illegitimate, see Conservative parties as illegitimate. Started around 2000, grew after 2008, exploded 2016 (Trump/Brexit.) "The challenge of [postmodern] Marxism" Pic NYT quillette.com/2020/08/16/the…

"Sweden’s High Covid Death Rates Among the Nordics: “Dry Tinder” [flu season 2019 weak, few elderly and sick died ] and Other Important Factors [more immigrants from non-EU countries, 220 % death rate and worked in eldercare, 75% of deaths]" aier.org/article/sweden… "16 Possible Factors for Sweden’s High Covid Death Rate among the Nordics" by Daniel B. Klein, Joakim Book, Christian Bjørnskov papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

"Muslim Population Growth in Europe" | Pew Research Center


Sweden today, 8%
Sweden 2050 scenarios:
zero migration, 11%
medium migration, 20%
high migration, 30% pewrsr.ch/2kcnN3y




Swedish population with some foreign background:
1980: 13.1%
1990: 16.2%
2022: 34.63%

Age 2022:
0-4 39.62%
5-9 40.37%
10-14 39%
15-24 39.71%
25-34: 41.19%
35-44 44.12%

Greater Stockholm: 46.13%
Greater Malmö: 43.77%
Greater Gothenburg: 38.43%