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  1. A cult of personality, or a cult leader like Trump, arises when an individual uses propaganda, the big lie, spectacle, counterfeit patriotism, demonstrations and rallies, to create an idealized heroic, and worshipful image of a leader, often through unquestioning flattery, and praise. The term came to prominence in 1956, in Nikita Khrushchev's secret speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, given on the final day of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In the speech, Khrushchev criticized the lionization and idealization of Stalin, and by implication, his Communist sidekick Mao Zedong. Mao's cult of personality, like Stalin’s, portrayed him as larger-than-life and endowed with unrivaled wisdom. Cults of personality fell out of favor in the 1950s after Khrushchev's speech, but Trump's handler Putin, has revived the practice, guiding a wave of nostalgia for Stalin as he advocates for Russian nationalism and anti-West sentiment. A main feature of Stalinism was its cult of personality. Whereas Lenin had claimed that the workers suffered from false consciousness and therefore needed a vanguard party to guide them, Stalin maintained that the Communist Party itself suffered from false consciousness and therefore needed an all-wise leader—Stalin himself—to guide it. The resulting cult of personality portrayed Stalin as a universal genius in every subject, from linguistics to genetics. Sounds very familiar to the wannabe dictator in the Oval Office who claims to be a stable genius.
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  2. I slept under my bed last night after watching Kimberly Guilfoyle's blood curdling screams at the RNC.😲 Every election it's the same old fear mongering horror stories from republicans. Like a one trick pony, fear is their one trick. Their goal is to try and scare the bejesus out of voters. In fact, I heard that all of the speeches for the RNC were written by M. Night Shyamalan himself. 😲 There are reports that thousands of accidental shootings took place inside MAGA households by terrified Trump supporters during the RNC speeches last night.😆
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  3. Q is a cult that caters specifically to the mentally unstable. Before Trump, the best modern-day example of a cult of personality came to us from North Korea and Kim Jong-un, the despotic dictator that Trump admires so much. Kim Jong-un's cult of personality paints him as a man who can do anything. According to this propaganda, he can climb tall mountains, even though like Trump, he is horrendously obese, and in terrible physical shape. Like Trump, Kim Jong Un brags about being able to make strong and intelligent military decisions, despite neither one of them having a military background. "This man is a genius at every level! Why can't we all be like him? He must be something special, and we are clearly not. Ergo, let's listen to him since he knows best." -- Trump supporters The Republican party has been replaced by a destructive cult known as Trumpism. It's a cult rooted in lies, absurdities, wild conspiracy theories, self-deception, hypocrisy, self-righteous bigotry, doublespeak, and blind dogmatic obedience to the "Chosen One." Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton, who once taught at Harvard Medical School, wrote a paper titled Cult Formation in the early 1980s. He delineated  primary characteristics, which are the most common features shared by destructive cults, destructive cults like Trumpism.. 1. A charismatic leader, who increasingly becomes an object of worship as the general principles that may have originally sustained the group lose power. That is a living leader, who has no meaningful accountability and becomes the single most defining element of the group and its source of power and authority. 2. A process of indoctrination or education is in use that can be seen as coercive persuasion or thought reform commonly called "brainwashing". The culmination of this process can be seen by members of the group often doing things that are not in their own best interest, but consistently in the best interest of its leader. 3. The exploitation of group members by the leader and the ruling members. Here are warning signs of a potentially unsafe group or leader. • Absolute authoritarianism without meaningful accountability. • No tolerance for questions or critical inquiry. • No meaningful financial disclosure regarding budget or expenses, such as an independently audited financial statement. • Unreasonable fear about the outside world, such as impending catastrophe, evil conspiracies and persecutions. • Former followers are always wrong in leaving, negative or even evil. • The group/leader is always right.. • The group/leader is the exclusive means of knowing "truth" or receiving validation, no other process of discovery is acceptable or credible. As we've all seen, when it comes to the warning signs and characteristics of a cult, Trump and his followers check most of the boxes.
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