Todays rumination on Charles Manson ...

[mr_lebowski]

Charles Manson, as most are aware, is a notorious murderer.

He was sentenced to life in prison, and he served life in prison ... over 40 years worth of his miserable life, as I recall.

But Charles Manson, as most are also aware ... didn't kill anyone himself. Didn't even a raise a finger against the people he was convicted of murdering.

Instead, he collected a group of impressionable people, and molded and shaped them into a weapon to be used on his behalf. A CULT, IOW.

Then he worked this cult into a frenzy with tales of a deadly upcoming civil war, resulting in societal collapse, where whites and black are fighting each other in the streets.

Then he directed his mob out into the public, in order to foment the conditions necessary to begin this 'inevitable' Civil War that he imagined in his drug-induced delirium.

A Capitol Hill policeman is now dead.

Most likely, killed by rampaging cult members, at minimum indirectly, at best accidentally.

These cultists were directed to this violence ... by someone other than Manson.

But as they did so, they wore regalia festooned with messages like "Civil War - 1/06/2020" and "Camp Auschwitz".

Need I remind anyone of the infamous Swastika carved into Manson's forehead?

Helter Skelter, indeed ...

[AnotherMother4Peace]

1. trump's & manson's "charm", speech patterns, rhetoric, lies, ability to groom followers,

and so much is eerily similar. Manson gave several interviews from prison - very scary, very unstable. So much like trump without the suit. DO NOT GIVE TRUMP ANOTHER 12 DAYS - he is too compromised, vindictive, dangerous, beholden. He is a danger with dangerous cult followers.

[ARPad95]

2. I read "Helter Skelter" in the 1980s and it scared the crap out of me!

I still get images of wackos dressed all in black sneaking through houses at night as dry runs for the real thing while the occupants slept unaware in their beds.

Manson was a totally deranged, but charismatic personality whose followers were absolutely brainwashed into murdering for him. I can see the comparison to tRump.