clearly, the people who would contact you with hate mail because of you looking at things they way they really are, are just asleep. I "woke up" a while back. America is not the country our textbooks and politicians would have us believe. Thanks to you and writers like you, we have a second side to look at. America has no enemies it has not worked at making for itself. The people who would hope our gov't protects us are fooled. If you go out into the country, away from population centers, you'll find people who don't believe anything from the gov't, and won't ask to be protected. Certainly not from imaginary enemies. Our gov't is at war against the people, in every turn. It may not be violent, but it is just as effective. TY MBoldin, may you wake millions!!

The hate mail you find Michael that I too occasionally get on a lessor known blog illustrates what I refer to as the Right Wing Authoritarian [RWA] Personality 'Disorder' rather than 'Type'. This RWA personality is more a 'disorder' than a 'type' from being raised in typically an authoritarian Christian environment, although all monotheist religions are 'authoritarian' in hierarchical structure and dogma. Authoritarianism is the 21st century replacement for despotism and totalitarianism - they all mean the same thing in political rule.

I also refer to this disorder as the RWA "True Believer" Personality as a reference to Eric Hoffer and his unintentional description of the RWA personality as ‘The True Believer’ in his 70s book of the same name.

“True believers are not intent on bolstering and advancing a cherished self, but are those craving to be rid of unwanted self. They are followers, not because of a desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy their passion for self-renunciation! They are eternally incomplete and eternally insecure.” [Eric Hoffer; Author of ‘The True Believer’ and winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom].

Here's a description of the RWA True Believer Personality [Disorder] I wrote combing some research of the 2 most famous behavioral scientists studying it with my own observations:

The authoritarian personality is characterized as conventional, submissive to authority, and aggressive toward deviants and outsiders (Altemeyer, 1981). Most freethinkers can easily recognize this RWA personality that shares similar characteristics or ‘traits’ with the ‘true believer’ from: excessive conformity; submissiveness to authority; intolerance; insecurity; superstition and; ridged, stereotyped thought patterns. All the preceeding characteristics are identified by German sociologist and philosopher, Theodor W. Adorno as traits of an Authoritarian Personality.

Members of large authoritarian groups, regardless if religious, political or fraternal, are to a large degree, externally directed. Their immense need for external direction drives them to join mass movements by the droves to follow a charismatic leader. As long as dependent minded followers believe, their leader can get away with anything. A common hatred, enemy, or devil is essential to the success of both their leaders and their groups characterized by an ‘us versus them’ attitude of bigotry, and hate towards outsiders. Their internal dependence on external group thought and direction is a primary reason they’ve been so successful at imposing authoritarian rule throughout history using a few select faith-based leaders. The most extreme racist hate groups in America like the KKK, Aryan Nation and others, all have a Christian identity that supercedes their bigoted racial supremacy. Right wing political groups in America also have a primary Christian identity that supercedes their underlying right wing political goals.

True believers seem to almost always be raised in an authoritarian environments. They have typically been taught ‘what’ to think, rather than ‘how’ to think from birth. Instead of a philosophy based in reason to guide them, or show them the path, they rely on others, typically authoritarian figures, both alive and dead, to direct their thoughts and actions taken in life. Like all that suffer from deeper levels of psychosis, they refuse to acknowledge they even have a mental disorder where contact with reality has been completely lost or at best, highly distorted.

Research shows authoritarian personalities are hierarchical, conventional, and intolerant. Religion depends and demands on intolerance and bigotry because of its prime requirement for obstinate and unreasoning attachment to it’s beliefs unfounded in fact. Intolerance is needed for indoctrination and continued adherence to religious dogma. If the believer is not bigoted, the believer does not remain a devout member. Altemeyer’s research in particular reveals the personality of a RWA [Right Wing Authoritarian] individual to be highly dependent upon strong group demands for high ideological conformity. Altemeyer’s RWA scale measures three reliable facets of authoritarianism: conventionalism, or rigid conformity to group norms; submission to higher status individuals; and aggression toward out-groups and unconventional group members. All ideal measures of individual and group norms so necessary to religion comprised of its ‘RWA true believer personalities’ of religious adherents.

A defining factor between the true believer and the freethinker in human populations of all societies around the world appears to be distinguished by the each individual’s subsequent ability or inability to utilize the most rudimentary levels of reason. These same RWA true believer personalities exhibiting substandard abilities in reasoning flock to each other from finding emotional comfort in cults, mass movements, and large groups characterized by dependent group thought. All cults are composed of true believers with RWA personalities. They are the joiners and the followers who are always looking for authority, answers, meaning, guidance and enlightenment from outside themselves.

Dr. Altemeyer has a new and free book on line called "The Authoritarians" that provide much insight into this RWA personality disorder reeking havoc around the world particularly in highly monotheist societies like our own in 'Amurika', Israel of course, as well as in Arab Islamic nations. Monotheism, and the authoritarian personalities it produces, has and still is singularly the most destructive force in the history of civilization.

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I, too, have gotten those types of comments at my blog, and what I find most interesting is the grammatical errors, as well as the spelling errors. These are people who never put much stock in education while growing up, therefore they never gained the capacity to think for themselves, and glom onto the first hate monger who appeals to their basest instincts.

If you examine old English books and documents you will find regionally different spellings of words. Based on dialect phonetically.

Only when mass compulsory education was launched by nation-states and newspapers and other 'national' media were created did a 'standard' spelling emerge. Such standards are arbitrary.

Indeed spelling doesn't have much to do with intelligence, but there are some cases where the errors would count as errors in any type of English used nowadays. I've had a couple of ingenious troll comments over at my blog with severely impaired spelling and a complete lack of punctuation and capital letters (Not to mention that they spewed utter crap while they were at it).
That's a case that reflects the author's level of intellect. And some examples are too extreme to be taken seriously.

I can take that argument and turn it 180 degrees.

There are the zionist trolls who pounce on any tiny misspelling that I have made, knowing full well that I can spell very well. This passive-aggressive behavior of the zionist trolls seets rite upp att thei bottom level with the ideeuts who kan't spill to safe therre lives.

hehehe.

I submit it's the ones who don't question authority and swallow anything the gov't tells them. They R the ones who should leave and move to Cuba or North Korea...

Ladies and gentlemen, meet the Bushbot...

While I agree with leftfield that poor spelling is not necessarily an indication of intelligence, or at least not when taken out of context. However, the presence of regional variations in spelling and pronunciation is a bit of a red herring, as there is precious little in the way of regional variation now except for the old British versus American English chestnut.

Poor spelling when taken in the context of the published remarks can be seen as an indicator of a lack of engagement with "educashun". From this it is possible to infer an impaired or non-existent inability to engage in critical thought.

What is most ironic about these remarks is that the Bushbots who wrote them would be the first to bleat on about the "freedumbs" you enjoy in the United States, but would equally be the first to deny you those same "freedumbs".