Is the republican party a cult?

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[gizmo1979]

1. More like a syndicate

like the Mob,or the bloods or crips.

[marmar]

2. It's like that secret society in the movie "The Skulls"

Individual members might be perfectly decent people, but when you join it you sell your soul.

:evilgrin:

[begin_within]

6. It seems to have some cult-like qualities - loyalty rewarded, no dissent..

[bonito]

3. Or a esoteric society?

[sweetheart]

4. By formal definitions, yes it is.

People give up thinking for themselves deferring to a pecking order of
beliefs and a priesthood behind all that rhetoric.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

5. It didn't used to be

but lately I just don't know. I think there is a very smug, self-satified element who are about to be brought up REAL short.

Now, I do think that the fundy wing certainly has some elements of cults.

[proud patriot]

7. partly

IMO

[Just Me]

8. Only a faction of it.

Only the faction exploiting the American people and the resources of this nation to exact an ANTI-DEMOCRATIC agenda.

[Jawja]

9. Yes,

a "cult of corruption."

[populistdriven]

10. Lets add a the Repukes to the Wiki definition of a cult!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult

woot they already have a

see also:
Cognitive dissonance

at the bottom of the definition of cult!

[Lefty48197]

11. Yes. Bring your own Kool Aid to the satanic masses

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[PowerToThePeople]

12. Republican = modern day Nazi party. n/t

[PurityOfEssence]

13. No, it's a religion; a religion is a cult that made it.

This mob of greedy users has definitely made it.

[ladjf]

14. No. It's a band of crooks.

[mmonk]

15. Yes

because their followers believe everything they say, believe they are always under attack, they alone know the truth, and their voters live in an alternate reality.