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Ill hop of here and let everybody get started. Thank you so. All right. Well, good evening or hello, whatever time of day youre watching this. Ive got a brief power point im going to use to get into this book. Its based on academic study presented in a nonacademic manner. That was my job as a collaborator. I have been studying this science for a little over a decade and written an earlier book on it, as ill mention. So my job was to keep my co lab to keep it for a lay audience. Before i get into the book i discovered a very interesting study done by the democratic fund, their voter study group, that is actually an examination of attitudes in america of authoritarianism, and i will define authoritarianism for us. We could spend i could do a whole book on that subject alone. But i think most people have a pretty good idea what it is. Larry diamond at stanford shared this information with me and its fascinating. Americans are overwhelmingly love their quote democracy, but that overwhelmin ....