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I was having an exchange with another poster and this subject came up. I was curious and looked up the signs you’re in a cult:
Warning Signs
1 - Duh? Trump voters insist that a) TRump has the right to do whateveer he wants and b) all attempts at accounability are met with resistance - even when declaring he’s 100% innocent. I’ve had folks on here that Trump *needed* to obstruct Mueller *because* he was innocent, in example.
2 - HAHAHAHAH “Hoax!” “Fake news!” “Deep State!” Good luck trying to get a Republican to sincerely and in good faith answer a single question about Trump orthodoxy.
3 - This one is filed with #2.
4 - We need look no further than their take on immigration. It started with “illegal” immigration, then it became all immigration. Evil conspiracies and prosecutions? Consider: the president of the united states each day declares *he* is the victim, and his base agrees with him. The most powerful man in the world who has let us know he has more money than anyone else, crying. And they eat it up.
5 - “NeverTrumpers!”
6 - Like...there’s about a billion books out right now detailing this one.
7 - We call this one “videos of Trump talking”
8 - One common trait among gun obsessed conversvative males: low self-esteem. We know Trump was raised by an abusive father who let him know what a loser he was, thus his obsession with the word and labeling others with it.
9 - I mean...ask a Trump person what they don’t like and you’ll get “He should stop tweeting.” Ask a Democrat, virtually *any* Democrat what we don’t like about Joe Biden, do you think you’ll get just ONE answer? Ask any sports team fan - do you think you’d get the kind of blind obedience Trump enjoys? There are Yankee fans who **** on their team more than Trump people.
10 - He has told his base do not trust any sources other than him, they repeat his words without any cynicism. THis one could ba book all by itself.
So. yeah, I think all plug in the “cult” tag generally, but in this case when you look into it...woof. They’re a friggin’ cult. Full stop.
Warning Signs
1 - Duh? Trump voters insist that a) TRump has the right to do whateveer he wants and b) all attempts at accounability are met with resistance - even when declaring he’s 100% innocent. I’ve had folks on here that Trump *needed* to obstruct Mueller *because* he was innocent, in example.
2 - HAHAHAHAH “Hoax!” “Fake news!” “Deep State!” Good luck trying to get a Republican to sincerely and in good faith answer a single question about Trump orthodoxy.
3 - This one is filed with #2.
4 - We need look no further than their take on immigration. It started with “illegal” immigration, then it became all immigration. Evil conspiracies and prosecutions? Consider: the president of the united states each day declares *he* is the victim, and his base agrees with him. The most powerful man in the world who has let us know he has more money than anyone else, crying. And they eat it up.
5 - “NeverTrumpers!”
6 - Like...there’s about a billion books out right now detailing this one.
7 - We call this one “videos of Trump talking”
8 - One common trait among gun obsessed conversvative males: low self-esteem. We know Trump was raised by an abusive father who let him know what a loser he was, thus his obsession with the word and labeling others with it.
9 - I mean...ask a Trump person what they don’t like and you’ll get “He should stop tweeting.” Ask a Democrat, virtually *any* Democrat what we don’t like about Joe Biden, do you think you’ll get just ONE answer? Ask any sports team fan - do you think you’d get the kind of blind obedience Trump enjoys? There are Yankee fans who **** on their team more than Trump people.
10 - He has told his base do not trust any sources other than him, they repeat his words without any cynicism. THis one could ba book all by itself.
So. yeah, I think all plug in the “cult” tag generally, but in this case when you look into it...woof. They’re a friggin’ cult. Full stop.
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