Our country is in for a hell of a time as we almost have to de-program

[Peacetrain]

those who have bought into a cult like mind set. I do not hate Republicans because they are Republicans or are small government people.. I do not hate them for their stances on abortion even gun rights. . Those are issues we can fight out in the halls of congress and at the ballot box.

What I truly hate, and it is a hate, is the clinging to a cult leader, and that is exactly what it is,clinging to another for your views of the world. Millions of people are going against the very thing they once stood for to embrace whatever dear leader says. Not all republicans are doing that. We see some of the most passionate commentators who hold Trumps feet to the fire, are actually Republicans or former members of that party

The conservatives have their hands full. The party they once rallied under, no longer exists. They are not going to become Democrats. We have different views and values on how government should run. But as someone who has seen what happen to a person when they lose their selves into the cult of dear leader, it is not easy to bring them back.

[maxsolomon]

1. Parnas woke up really quick.

All that he needed was some time in Federal Prison and a Trump lawyer setting him up to take the fall.

[Peacetrain]

2. It really is interesting isn't it.. how they cling to him

only to have dear leader turn on them.. and then find the light and truth. The minor hoods, we know what they are, minor hoods doing dear leaders bidding. What is more worrisome to me, it the millions of voters who now blindly follow behind him.

[CaptYossarian]

3. Small government people? Check the deficit.

They haven't been about small government since the 70s. Then Reagan raised taxes 7 out of his 8 years as president.

[Peacetrain]

4. There is the nub.. what they view themselves as one thing and what they

end up following and embracing is the opposite. It is a cult, and we saw some of it during Reagan and Bush the younger.. but never have we had to deal with a cult leader like Trump.. Green is yellow, night is day, fire is cold and ice is hot. His ability to lie and lie and lie literally wears the people around him down, till they adopt his viewpoint.

[CaptYossarian]

8. He's a mixture of Jim Jones and Lonesome Rhodes, but with a touch of

Don Rickles (plus Ted Bundy's respect for women).

No wonder he exceeds 300 lbs.

[Peacetrain]

10. Perfect imagery.. he really is Lonesome Rhodes/Jim Jones.

The man has no moral center.

[CaptYossarian]

14. Both had tragic endings.

Jones and his 900 followers died together, while Andy Griffith lost his audience--plus his girlfriend walked away with Walter Matthau.

I don't see Trump losing his gullible base, so the production line at Kool-Aid better get moving.

[Wounded Bear]

5. I think you can leave out the "almost" in your statement...

[Peacetrain]

6. You are right..

they are cultists in every way you can define it.

[CousinIT]

7. Until/unless something is done about Fox "news" and Facebook...

....these ignorant buffoons will continue belonging to one cult or another that is infecting sane and decent society and sane and decent government like a plague.

[Peacetrain]

9. Almost makes a person wonder if the Russians are the ones who have been giving

financial backing to get these companies to get them up and running.. keep them up there till they are a power unto themselves. Putin is old school KGB and understands how easy it is to brainwash people in a crowd. Get the crowd moving one way, and it is almost impossible to stop it.

[CaptYossarian]

15. There was talk during Bush I about the New World Order.

It sounded crazy at the time, but it's coming true right now.

Others have mentioned FOX News and FB. Let's not forget ALEC.

[jimlup]

11. They are not capable of regaining a grip on reality - at least not right now.

and we will all have to pay a huge price because of it.

[Peacetrain]

12. I wonder how we bring them back..

Our country cannot function with fully a third of it, lost in delusion. Follow dear leader is such a frightening thing.

[jimlup]

16. After this cold war is over and we've won

we have to shut down faux news

[ancianita]

17. AMEN

[0rganism]

13. current circumstances suggest the cultists will be the ones overseeing the re-programming

and we (or at least, those of us too white to exterminate openly) will be the ones getting re-programmed.

this isn't going away. loudly, quietly, or otherwise.
the assholes have taken over, and stolen American culture out from under us while we slept.

we had an opportunity back in the 1970s to deal with the underlying causes. now it is much too late.