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zeemike

(18,998 posts)
12. I think you have to understand how cults work.
Sun Apr 29, 2012, 07:17 PM
Apr 2012

Fear is the tool to keep people in line and in the cult..
for instance in a religious cult the Anti Christ is the boogie man...so all you need to do is establish that communism is godless...and you do that by calling it godless communism...and then to prevent outsiders from taking your cult followers away from you you call them godless communist....by saying for instance The communist Saul Alinsky...then tie him to Obama...say is following the communist Saul Alinsky's play book....now you have made Obama a godless communist and probably the anti Christ.
And it seems that you only need to repeat it no more than three times and it becomes a fact in the mind of the cult followers.

We tend to think they are stupid....and the followers may be...but the leaders are not stupid....just ruthless and sociopathic and seek to control...an there is no surer way to do that than this.
But it does require a lack of critical thinking skills....and that is why they have been attacking education sense the John Birchers did it in the 60s

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