"How to Identify a Cult" (how many of these six does the GOP base do?)

[applegrove]

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How to Identify a Cult

By Wayne Jackson at the Christian Courier

https://www.christiancourier.com/articles/250-how-to-identify-a-cult

"SNIP...................................


(1) Cult members are “focused on a living leader to whom members seem to display excessively zealous, unquestioning commitment.” The leader is a strong-willed, domineering character who rules the group with tight control. He lets it be known in subtle ways that he is in charge of the movement. He makes the plans, he orchestrates the movements of the group or groups (sometimes he exercises his sway over several groups). He dispatches the workers, assigns their chores, etc.

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(2) “Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged,” and there can be pressure or social punishment when there is disagreement with the “boss.” Those who disagree are made to feel as though they are stupid or inept. They are brainwashed with the notion that they do not have the knowledge or experience to question the leader.

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4) The cult leader generates within his members “a polarized” mentality. His people evolve an us-versus-them outlook. Little by little, he criticizes other groups with which his members might tend to associate, undermining confidence in them, attempting to discredit anyone who could have influence over his flock.

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(6) Cult members are seen occasionally to take on a new personality. They begin to act differently. They become increasingly antagonistic to family members and long-time friends. They may even boast, “I am not the old [name] that you used to know; I am a new person now.” And indeed they are. They have become strangers to those who knew them well. They have been transformed into the image of their leader.


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[Fumesucker]

1. This should end well

[applegrove]

2. Why? I would think most DUers would agree with the idea here.

[Fumesucker]

6. Oh, I could see the discussion getting BOGged down in acrimony

And then Snowwald might make an appearance also.

[L0oniX]

10. ^^^^this^^^^

[Wilms]

3. Agreed.

Butter? Salt?

[cherokeeprogressive]

4. I was laughing before I finished the first sentence of the first bullet point. n/t

[NuclearDem]

5. This is almost too easy.

Backfire worse than an old Ford in 3...2...1...

[applegrove]

7. "He dispatches the workers, assigns their chores, etc". The GOP certainly get their base to all play

a role whether it be to join a right wing church or to pester family on facebook with politics..they march.

[snooper2]

8. LOL, believing in magical creatures that you can't hear, see, touch, smell or taste?

and then giving the local "leader" money?

definition works! WINING!

[meow2u3]

9. Can you say, "Tea Party"?

They're a cult--a political cult!

[RetroLounge]

11. LOL!

I get a sense of what you are doing here.



RL

[applegrove]

13. I noticed while watching M*A*S*H on dvd that how people talked used to include words

like "gaslight", "razzle dazzle" and all sorts of terms to described bad behaviour. I'm on a kick to put such language and ideas back into the vernacular of the interwebs. I've had horrid experiences in my life. You in the USA went 30 years before a majority saw the bullshit of the GOP. Seems like a good way to take what I have learnt and share it with the world.

[adirondacker]

12. I don't think we get enough BO Cult on DU.

More Cowbell!