Tom DeLay (see: Eyes)
Tom DeLay
Double High
Tom DeLay (see: Eyes)
See: Double High
[False prophets]“Tom Delay’s Double High authoritarian personality offers an almost textbook example of the four defining elements of a social dominator: the tendency to dominate; opposition to equality; desire for personal power; and amorality. … Delay, in a pattern followed by many Double High authoritarians, became a born-again Christian in 1984.” Conservatives Without Conscience by John Dean
Let's play a game. I'll describe a well-known American politician, the
description being unceremoniously lifted from John Dean's book,
Conservatives Without Conscience. See if you can
figure out who it is, and whether you can make a diagnosis of his personality,
doctor.
"X" became a born-again
Christian when he was first elected to Congress. He brought a strong drive for
power with him to Washington, and he steadily worked his way to the top of the
Republican caucus. Colleagues have described him as amoral. "If it wasn't
illegal to do it, even if it was clearly wrong and unethical, (he did it). And
in some cases if it was illegal. I think he still did it" said another
Republican Congressman. "X" is opposed to equality,
and Newsweek commented that he has never been subtle about his uses of the power
of Love and Fear. He kept marble tablets of the Ten Commandments and a
half-dozen bull-whips in his office when the was the party whip. He earned the
nicknames, "the Hammer," "the Exterminator," and the ''Meanest Man
in Congress."
When "X" became House majority
leader (talk about a big hint!) he imposed a virtual dictatorship on the House
of Representatives. He instituted a number of unprecedented changes in House
procedures to keep Democrats, and even other Republicans, from having any say in
the laws being passed. He drastically revised bills passed by committees and
often sent them to the floor from his office for almost immediate votes. He
forbade amendments to most of the bills that came to the floor.
He excluded Democrats from the House-Senate conference committees formed
to iron out differences in
bills passed by the two chambers. He allowed special interests towrite laws that
were passed by the compliant Republican majority. And he allowed
unbelievable billions of dollars in pork-barrel GOP projects to be
attached to appropriation bills.
Who is "X"? If you said former
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay from
from Texas, you are right. Can you see why he looked like a
Double High to John Dean?
[2006] The Authoritarians” by Bob Altemeyer