According to Ruth Ben Ghiat 25-30 percent of the population have authoritarian tendencies. Without political avenues for expression, they use power and control over family members. Note the attack on DV funding. Axis II is rare but this is not.
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Thank you. That’s an interesting, but also disturbing statistic. There was a study also that showed DV dramatically increased with unemployment or financial duress. It’s awful. I think I will study up on the psychology of an authoritarian mindset.
aug 22, 2025, 10:22 pm • 1 0 • view
DV research focuses is on physical violence and felony charges. Financial duress increases feelings of helplessness and a likely need to increase control elsewhere. Coercive control is a subset of DV which is primarily perpetrated by men. Emma Katz has a substack with great info.
aug 22, 2025, 10:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Interesting!! I want to see the connections between DV and the authoritarian mindset. Collectively, we really need to understand the problem deeply if we’re ever going to be able to work better on solutions for the future.
aug 22, 2025, 10:43 pm • 1 0 • view
Feminism has been following this train of thought from the beginning. Look back to Sojourner Truth in the US. You do not need to be able to read to understand the roots of inequality. It starts in the family, with colonialism and slavery. That is why Trump wants to rewrite history.
aug 23, 2025, 1:10 am • 2 0 • view
This is long existing work: rianeeisler.com/wp-content/u...
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