Just In Time For Christmas: How to Talk with MAGA Republicans Without Losing Your Mind

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2. You said it. Cult.

I've posted quite a bit about cults, in my amateur way.

TLDR: Cults offer benefits to people who feel down, usually by projecting common weaknesses, fears and failures onto "others"

Like Emmanuel Goldstein in 1984.

And some forbidden or nasty behavior is "legitimized" such as racism, hate, violence and so on.

But it comes at a cost. One loses judgment, dignity, opportunity, and of course, money. All flow only to the "Don" to use mafia analogy.

Cults are always self-destructive.

Like so.



Finding out you've been suckered is often hard for people to figure.

People are afraid to look in the mirror.