Religion

it was used to force everyone to salute a guy who thought he was a god, with god-certitude, and kill miillions

now we have another with god-like "i-am-never-wrong" royal certitude

wilhelm reich who was there in europe to observe it thought fascism was caused by sexual repression and adolescent masturbation made guilty and fearful with religion, which caused children to transpose godliness on their parents (paternalism) and then by extension on to der fuhrer (something like that). he wrote a book on fascism, about it, and after he had escaped to the US, in 1956 a judge for the food and drug admin ordered it burned!

today authoritarianism in groups may be measured with the UAI or uncertainty avoidance index, as research has narrowed down what motivates most authoritarianism - and extra irrational need for certainty.

the sex on the wrong brain (sowb) theory, a unified theory of human behavior suggests that reich was half way there to explaining authoritarianism.

sowb theory suggests the need for certainty/avoidance of uncertainty that causes the authoritarian fear that drives them to find security (see einstein) in dogma and order-imposition may be exacerbated by wrong handed masturbation - because it mixes /associates reproductive impulses with logic (right hand - left brain) where they try to find satisfaction with certainty

and that would happen relatively recently in human history as populations grew and competed for resources and frustration and masturbation increased as it became necessary to delay the age of reproduction

so we're still learning sex with the wrong hand and we global warming is out of control because we can't even get real sex education past a bunch of sowbed-up republicans