Parenting, Politics, and Religion
“Researchers have linked authoritarian childrearing with children who withdraw, lack spontaneity, and have lesser evidence of conscience.”[1] If you ask me, “unbalanced, unhappy, and guilt ridden” are other common side-effects of the strict father parenting method. Guilt of course is the main foundation of major religions.
Religion provides the young adult (now out in the real world) another strict father - this one has a direct line to anything you may otherwise deem private. Having developed a need for totalitarian authority, life without the strict father often leaves the offspring with the perpetual feeling ’something is missing’. Enter God.
With God at side, and a long list of commandments committed to memory, off to the voting booth it is. Obedient, faithful in the rule, and never strayed, one more never-ending task remains: to impose the wants of the big brother up in the sky, on all that are.
Sources
[1] Wikipedia - Strict Father Model