tRrump's Acquittal Shows The GOP Senate Acts Like A Cult

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Republican senators blocked evidence and used lies, conspiracy theories and convoluted arguments to defend their leader.

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...psychologists and professors say the extreme measures Republicans took to defend Trump resemble a more sinister phenomenon: the mentality of cult members.

“They’ve just refused to entertain any ideas that go against their leader,” said Janja Lalich, a sociology professor at California State University, Chico, who studies cults and extremist groups. “That kind of closed-mindedness is just so typical of cult members.”

Many experts and politicians have made the comparison between Trumpism and cults. Lev Parnas, an associate of Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, said there was a “cult-like” atmosphere around the president, as did Anthony Scaramucci, Trump’s former communications director. Joe Walsh, the former Illinois congressman who launched a failed bid to challenge Trump’s nomination, said point-blank: “My Republican Party isn’t a party. It’s a cult.”
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This divisive mentality helps bind group members together and makes everything on the outside seem “horrifying and evil.”

“A healthy organization needs to allow for dissent and for asking questions,” said Hassan. “When any organization treats people like traitors for following their conscience or following an oath, that to me is a telltale sign of a mind control cult.”- HuffPost

[TwilightZone]

1. They've acted like a cult since the day he won the nomination.

Some of them knew what Trump and his minions were doing before he was even inaugurated and didn't care.

[2naSalit]

2. They cared,

enough to make sure to be in on it.

[TwilightZone]

3. True.

I should have said that they didn't care to do anything to stop him.

I doubt we'll ever know, but it would be interesting to know just how deep it goes and just how long ago it started. Probably even worse than we assume it was, on both counts.

[2naSalit]

4. Probably.

I've been paying attention since Kennedy and it wasn't looking pretty even then. It's been a longer battle than we care to admit. Any POC who knows history will tell you. I find it hard to locate many white people who see it.

I just watched that Bill Maher (sp?) video highlighting the connection to russia for the racists, because russia is under apartheid conditions for any other phenotype than that of pooty. It's worth watching again. It was suggested that permission be given such that clips from that and other videos become campaign ads for the GE.