I watched a bunch of grey haired, white, rural Iowans ROAST Chuck Grassley for not doing SOMETHING to get a young, tattooed, Latino immigrant nobody back from El Salvador because they were offended by the lack of Due Process the young man received.
If they become disillusioned they will likely be the loudest and angriest among us. We never believed or trusted, but if the blinders come off they'll not only see all the shit we do, they'll also be pissed about having had broken their trust.
It's also Republican tribalism. The vast majority of Republican voters would vote for a literal piece of shit if they had an R next to their name. Oh wait...
An apt thing to say on April 19, the 32nd anniversary of the Branch Davidian tragedy. And of course the 30th of the OKC bombing. ALL CULTS END IN TRAGEDY.
I hope you are wrong. The only way out of this is for the GOP to step back from the brink and reclaim their party for normal conservatives. We cant survive as a country when half of us want to simply destroy it. Our allies will give up on us too. A house divided cannot stand.
I think it is beneficial for the non-MAGAs to read “The Cult of Trump”. It’s still frustrating, but easier to digest once you understand the brainwashing science of it all.
My family joined an end time apocalyptic cult in the 70s when I was a teen. They had to be bankrupted, abused, used like slave labor, relegated to living on the edge of a mosquito infested forest in a camper shell on stilts before my father said, "Enough." Never admitted that they made a mistake.
They have no where else to go but the exclusive "Club of Fine People" who shoot up colleges and run over women with cars.....but they're not terrorists.
Nothing truer said. Germans supported Hitler and Nazism even after he had committed suicide in his bunker. Yes, I know I’m taking about my fellow Americans. This is not going to end well.
This is exactly what his supporters want and they have been waiting for someone like Trump for a long time. They will never turn their backs on him. A true cult.
And the lying right wing neocon media is 24/7 pumping lies and misdirection into the homes of people who just want to feel better than someone else. Anyone else. They know their audience.
What a ride it’s been from “government is unable do anything effective,” to “I don’t want the government to be effective,” to “I want the government to be actively dismantling our services.”
I have one sister who is a cult member. She refuses to read any article or evidence, and forces everybody else to tiptoe around her religious and political sensibilities or she gets angry and offended. I cut her off from my life yesterday.
I also think it’s peer pressure at this point. It’s hard to say anything against T when they’ve been competing amongst themselves about who is the most maga for years
Cult is a term often applied to new religious movements and other social groups which have unusual, and often extreme, religious, spiritual, or philosophical beliefs and rituals. Extreme devotion to a particular person, object, or goal is another characteristic often ascribed to cults.
It is documented that members of cults can suddently quit a cult if they see something that shock them enough. Every individual has a limit. Some cultist are already leaving: let’s be accepting. Ridiculing them will not help in the long run. It feels good to do it, but it’s not helping.
If we're going to say it's a cult, then we should take that seriously. Ask what we know about how cults are formed, why people join, how they can be deprogrammed, how belief in the leader can be undermined.
Not just throw it out there like a brick through a window. That doesn't get us anywhere.
You’ve got that right! Trying to argue with a MAGA is the equivalent of ramming your head against a BRICK Wall! I know, because I used to TRY to make PEACE with EVERYONE. There are just some people you can’t REACH. They are more enamored of their PREJUDICE. They don’t want 2 LEARN ANYTHING new.
When they do finally express that they may have been wrong about Trump and that they are afraid, it certainly doesn’t help that people lash out in anger with, “no one cares how you feel! You helped create this mess!”
If we want Trumpism to die, we have to help people leave it and welcome them.
And I observe that many of them share this personality flaw where they simply cannot admit being wrong- especially when they’re already up to their waist in it.
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We have a chance with a large part of Trumpers.
But then, where do all cults ultimately end?
The only question is how many innocents do they likewise end up taking with them?
Is something they’re supposed to be doing every Sunday!
It is a cult, but now treat it like one.
#America has fallen.
Pick it up.
#AmericanValues
PART 1 (1 minute video)
https://youtube.com/shorts/kAckvu2fRcg?si=KqCZKLvRARApADu9
Victims of narcissistic abuse have an incredibly difficult time leaving because of a cycle of love bombing and devaluing and being gaslit constantly.
Professional deprogrammers need to step in.
https://bsky.app/profile/mcuban.bsky.social/post/3ln4w6m2dfk2u
Source: I did twenty years of research on alcoholism.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yVYEnj9e5r4
But a larger % of followers quit cults when there's more internal pressure to survive than the external pressure to succumb
Give it a month when the crossroad of consequences implode
#fuckmaga
Not just throw it out there like a brick through a window. That doesn't get us anywhere.
#1: Democratic Party communications strategy is 🤬. They need to hire younger people and listen to George Lakoff.
#2: Many of us have a tendency to mock, ridicule, and insult his voters. We must stop this. It only drives them further into his arms.
If we want Trumpism to die, we have to help people leave it and welcome them.
A tree, a mud road.
Masochist: Beat me!
Sadist: Nope.
The End