In an article that we recent published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, we found that liberals were now the ones calling for obedience.
Internet controls have been severely tightened and the official media have led a chorus calling for patriotic obedience to the rules in everything from internet use to culture.
The Personal Status Law calls for wife obedience, allows marital rape, reinforces stereotypes about women's roles as caretakers within the home and severely restricts women's freedom of movement.
In May, soon after the pope made an address on the priesthood, chastising those who sought to stretch the church's rules and calling for "radical obedience," Vatican gendarmes arrested Benedict's butler on charges of theft after a tell-all book appeared, based on stolen confidential documents detailing profound mismanagement and corruption inside the Vatican.
This amounted to a show of mass defiance to the ruling family, which had taken the unprecedented step of issuing a statement calling for public obedience to the Emir.
Hitler ruled Germany autocratically by asserting the Führerprinzip (leader principle), which called for absolute obedience of all subordinates.
Not only does it ignore the role played by elites in making historical progress, by emphasising the need for mobilising the general population, it also calls for absolute obedience to the passions and will of the people.
At the 2012 United Methodists General Conference, where delegates from around the world refused to eliminate the language that harms lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people, Bishop Talbert called for "Biblical obedience" to the Gospel of love rather than continue the victimization of church members who are LGBTQ.
His calls for "unity" are only a call for capitulation and obedience.
In recent times one expression of this contempt is the call for passivity and obedience ("moderation in democracy") by liberal internationalists reacting to the dangerous democratizing effects of the popular movements of the 1960s.
