I suggest taking the card on face value. Start at the core and work your way outward.
The Cult of KarlBy Harold Meyerson
Issue Date: 12.30.02
So who you gonna believe, Bob Woodward or Ron Suskind? In Bush at War, Woodward's new behind-the-scenes account of the White House in wartime, mighty battles are waged between the Powellites and the Cheneyistas over the fundamentals of foreign policy. Multilateralists duke it out with unilateralists, leaving the president to choose between, or meld, two distinctly opposed viewpoints of America's proper role in the world.
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http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/23/meyerson-h.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Rove#TriviaI would also suggest the dude is a abuser but not in the classical sense, but more in intellectual sense. He prays on peoples need to put up a defense to which he has learned to anticipate and strip bare. To this effect putting on the nasty or waiting for the rest of the public to wake up is the only way out (that I can see).
Abuse RecoveryCult leaders easily dupe followers. Usually, their crimes revolve around abuse: emotional, physical and sexual. Cult leaders may also commit financial and criminal abuses. An abusive person may start his own organization, or he may grab power after the death of a charismatic preacher. Abusive people may be put in place after a hostile takeover of a company or government. One common way it can start is when corrupt politicians make political appointments. This section is directed to people who suffered abuse as adults or children under the care of dishonest people.
What is it about abuse that makes it so difficult to recognize and talk about? Guilt, perhaps, since we have all abused or been abused at some time. If we had kids, the odds are that we hit them, since studies show that ninety seven percent of American parents hit their kids. According to Murray Straus, a well-respected researcher in the field of child abuse, ordinary spanking can and should be eliminated to produce healthier children. Spanking is the fall back method of getting the point across, but there are dozens of parent training programs now that teach parents how to set boundaries and manage their children without hitting.
Another reason people overlook abuse is due to limited experience in handling strong emotions. Thanks to Freud, most of us have invested a great deal of energy in covering up pain. We think that we're doing someone a favor by ignoring their pain or hiding our own, but we're really just unable to confront our own feelings. Jung taught that connecting with our personal depths makes us more wholesome people, with more empathy for others.
Often the perpetrator gets away with his crimes because he wears the disguise of an upstanding citizen; for example he may become a prominent member of the church, or a business or civic leader. This is the case in cults, and often in incest families, too. Cult or family members like everything about certain respected elders, so they refuse to listen to charges that victims may raise. Everyone wants to keep the family secrets hidden; as if the problem has gone away. A mother may conspire by refusing to acknowledge an act of abuse against her child. She may try to prove that the perpetrator is a nice man. Conspirators teach victims that their perception of reality is invalid and that what happened to them was acceptable, thinking this will help them forget it. Anyone who claims that abuse can easily be forgotten is a dangerous person who should never be allowed to gain power over others, especially children.
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