Markers of Facist Potential in the U.S.
                                      By T. W. Adorno
 
 
  1. 1.  Conventionalism.  Rigid adherence to conventional, middle-class values
  2. 2.  Authoritarian Submission.  Submissive, uncritical attitude toward idealized moral authorities of the ingroup.
  3. 3.  Authoritarian Agression.  Tendency to be on the outlook for, and to condemn, reject and punish people who violate conventional values.
  4. 4.  Anti-Intraception.  Opposition to the subjective, the imaginative, the tender-minded.
  5. 5.  Superstition and stereotypy.  The belief in mystical determinants of the individual's fate; the disposition to think in rigid categories.
  6. 6.  Power and Toughness.  Preoccupation with the dominance-submission, strong weak, leaderfollower dimension; indentification with power figures; overemphasis upon conventional attributes of the ego; exaggerated assertion of strength and toughness.
  7. 7.  Destructiveness and cynicism.  Generalized hostitlity, villification of the human.
  8. 8.  Projectivity.  The disposition to believe that wild and dangerous things go on in the world; the projection of unconscious emotional impulses.
  9. 9.  Sex.  Exaggerated concern with sexual goings-on.