Monday, June 26, 2023

GETTING INTO THE HEADS OF TRUMP CULTISTS

 


35% of the electorate believe Donald J. Trump actually won the 2020 election, that the election was "rigged" and "stolen" from him.  

Trump himself keeps repeating what's been called "the Big Lie" in campaign appearances and speeches and his followers knowingly nod their heads.

Tad Hasse
Former friend Tad Hasse, a stalwart Republican idealogue, bet me $100  Trump would win the 2020 election and he never paid up, likely because, in his heart of hearts, he “knows" Trump won.


History is filled with accounts of large groups of people being simultaneously duped, tricked and fooled by a cult leader.

Moonies Mass Wedding

In the 70's, followers of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon of the Unification Church, Moonies, as they were called, believed their leader to be the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, someone who would initiate a new earthly family free from sin.

Reverend Jim Jones
In 1978 the charismatic Jim Jones led over 900 of his followers in a mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana.

Groupthink can be dangerous, if not deadly.

Fervent, but misguided Trump followers demonstrated that January 6, 2021 spurred on by Trump's incendiary words:  


"Fight much harder" against "bad people," "show strength" and stop the steal!!!!!"


4 comments:

  1. OK Jim, so Trump still lives rent free in your head as he does for most extremist liberals

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    1. Not exactly. Pushing back agaist Trump and Trumpism comes with a price, that is losing friends or having that friendship reduced to mere politeness. Still, I can't type on a keyboard and ignore this menace to our country. Extreme liberal? I doubt that since I've only slipped into partisanship since Trump's slide down the elevator in 2015.

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  2. Is it true that Tad Hasse is hung like a bear?

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  3. Yea… a gummy bear!

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