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FredStembottom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-30-09 09:54 AM
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15. I think it is a fair description.
In so far as he is someone who leads his followers right off the cliff. He espouses ideas that are directly against his followers own self-interests - and yet they obey in lockstep.

His followers are clearly in it for the effect of being in something larger than themselves. For the effect of being cleansed of their own failures. For having Rush identify a permanent enemy that caused it all.

The fact that Rush also represents the very people who work day and night to keep his followers down goes un-noticed. They aren't there for solutions. They are there for the "born-again' effect.

The True Believer by Eric Hoffer explains all this in a way you will never forget. How people can get caught up in large movements to "wash away" their own failures rather than to accomplish something.
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  -rush is a cult leader, similar to Jim Jones, with 20 million Kool Aid drinkers Philosoraptor  Jan-30-09 07:28 AM   #0 
  - actually, no he's not.  cali   Jan-30-09 07:34 AM   #1 
  - The people on the left who put their fingers in their ears are called STUPIDS.,  Kokonoe   Jan-30-09 08:06 AM   #8 
  - Actually it's a good framing.  ColbertWatcher   Jan-30-09 01:00 PM   #28 
  - its not really 20 million (I think)  DrDan   Jan-30-09 07:37 AM   #2 
  - I doubt it's 20 mil - hard to believe that it would even be 3 mil - When he's the only thing on the  AnotherMother4Peace   Jan-30-09 09:01 AM   #13 
  - It's About 3.5 Million  ProfessorGAC   Jan-30-09 09:11 AM   #14 
     - that is what I thought - thanks  DrDan   Jan-30-09 10:00 AM   #16 
     - remember many of them have no choice  Johonny   Jan-30-09 12:21 PM   #24 
  - One bit of evidence  BOSSHOG   Jan-30-09 07:40 AM   #3 
  - there's a difference between that sort of brainless rhetoric  cali   Jan-30-09 07:42 AM   #4 
  - That's Great  Royal Oak Rog   Jan-30-09 07:43 AM   #5 
  - Why?  cali   Jan-30-09 07:49 AM   #6 
  - Limbaugh is the McCarthy of our age.  SAXMAR   Jan-30-09 07:58 AM   #7 
  - More like Walter Winchell nt  Dreamer Tatum   Jan-30-09 12:59 PM   #27 
  - The Cult Of Personality  KharmaTrain   Jan-30-09 08:09 AM   #9 
  - well said--and though he may not be leader of a cult, per se...  BlancheSplanchnik   Jan-30-09 10:18 AM   #17 
  - R for your post  Duppers   Jan-30-09 07:47 PM   #29 
  - Isn't he leading his followers to the same dead end?  corpseratemedia   Jan-30-09 08:13 AM   #10 
  - If they found his fat,bloated corpse in a dumpster.  EnviroBat   Jan-30-09 08:19 AM   #11 
  - more like Dr. Moreau  peekaloo   Jan-30-09 08:24 AM   #12 
  - I think it is a fair description.  FredStembottom   Jan-30-09 09:54 AM   #15 
  - also well said! Thanks for the book suggestion too! :) n/t  BlancheSplanchnik   Jan-30-09 10:20 AM   #18 
  - Thanks.  FredStembottom   Jan-30-09 10:41 AM   #19 
     - understanding is really important for me  BlancheSplanchnik   Jan-30-09 10:51 AM   #22 
  - Wow, that's true. At first I found the comparison to be a bit silly, but  Marr   Jan-30-09 10:47 AM   #21 
  - He's managed to convince many of his listeners to put right wing ideology ahead of their  Marr   Jan-30-09 10:45 AM   #20 
  - Not the "leader" exactly  Prophet 451   Jan-30-09 12:13 PM   #23 
  - Rush is the Pied-Piper of Mentally Imbalanced Morons  fascisthunter   Jan-30-09 12:24 PM   #25 
  - He's a trusted authority for right-wing-authoritarians.  sofa king   Jan-30-09 12:57 PM   #26 
 

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