Socialist Progressives

about authoritarianism being "right wing" or "left wing," although I've noticed, of course, that it's more prevalent on the right.

I do notice, all the time, that more people around me than not seem to need a black and white system to cling to in order to feel secure; that authoritarian systems seem to provide them with the security they crave, regardless of what that system is supposed to govern, or what its ideology.

I've wondered: is it that people need or crave that fear, hate, greed, and aggression, and the security that a simplistic, black and white authoritarian system provides them? Or are those who crave power over others creating that fear, hate, greed, and aggression in order to keep their flocks, political or religious or anything else, dependent?