Warning signs of a potentially unsafe group/leader - ( from: The Cult Education Institute)

[Kablooie]

- Absolute authoritarianism without meaningful accountability.

- No tolerance for questions or critical inquiry.

- No meaningful financial disclosure regarding budget, expenses such as an independently audited financial statement.

- Unreasonable fear about the outside world, such as impending catastrophe, evil conspiracies and persecutions.

- The group/leader is always right.

- The group/leader is the exclusive means of knowing "truth" or receiving validation, no other process of discovery is really acceptable or credible.

Warning signs regarding people involved in/with a potentially unsafe group/leader.

- Extreme obsessiveness regarding the group/leader resulting in the exclusion of almost every practical consideration.

- Whenever the group/leader is criticized or questioned it is characterized as "persecution".

- Dependency upon the group/leader for problem solving, solutions, and definitions without meaningful reflective thought. A seeming inability to think independently or analyze situations without group/leader involvement.

- Anything the group/leader does can be justified no matter how harsh or harmful.

Potentially unsafe groups or leaders "come off very nice at first, they go for vulnerable people who are looking for answers, lonely, what you'd call 'normal people.' They're very good at what they do and can get people to believe anything. You might think you'd never get taken in, but don't bet on it. "
-- Margaret Singer, Ph.D.

From:
https://culteducation.com/warningsigns.html

[Lucinda]

1. Well, we've definitely found another thing Trump is best at.

I give him full marks on all of the above, so far.

[Squinch]

2. Wow. This needs to be shared far and wide. That is point for point what he is.

[Kablooie]

3. T is trying to turn the whole country in to a cult.