If they wield authoritarian mannerisms, I am easily cowed. I developed this sorry trait as a child; my father was very scary if anyone disagreed with him and, for a long time, I had no opinions of my own. I've gotten better about this, but I tend not to speak up if I am the only one in a group with a certain point of view, the kind of point of view that is getting many arrested in other countries. It's not quite illegal to think in the US. Yet.