Is the GOP an insidious cult?

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I was reading this article (AN AMAZING STORY IN ITSELF) about a local Cybercult Queen and ran across this quote. Does it explain the fact that there are still voters willing to vote for GOP and Bush? Is the GOP a friggin’ cult? Do we need to de-program voters? Are the repubs all sleepers? How do we wake them up?

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It's true, according to experts: For some reason, being defrauded affects the victim like a drug.

"A very well-known phenomenon," says Andreas Schroeder, co-chairman of the creative writing department at the University of British Columbia and author of several books on scam artists and confidence games.

"People who have been suckered once are your very best bet to be suckered again. You'd think they'd be the last people willing to be conned. Nope. It's almost as if you're genetically prone to believing that kind of stuff. Once you've gone one step of the way, there's no reverse - it's only forward."
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http://www.tribnet.com/news/story/5314164p-5252027c.html