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Erich Fromm said that about 35% of humans, notwithstanding culture or national grouping, long for the simplicity of a harsh "daddy figure" and authoritarian rule, even with the cognitive dissonance and need for self-delusion  that are required. Then from there a sort of non-linear spectrum of people who could tolerate it, then a similar percentage who could not tolerate it at all.

So, for sake of simpler arithmetic,

Humanity's Struggle:

33.333% longs for dictators

33.333% could tolerate authoritarian rule given a range of parameters

33.333% could not tolerate it under any circumstances. 

Give or take, or course.

 

                  

 

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