Jamie Raskin Says He Has Consulted Cult Experts To Communicate With Extremist Colleagues

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/jamie-raskin-says-consulted-cult-234948262.html

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) revealed that he has sought advice from “cult deprogrammers” on how best to communicate with his extremist Republican colleagues — and “pull them away” from their alternative realities.

He has told some of those colleagues, “If you guys don’t get out of this, you’re going to be fit when it’s all over only to be selling incense and flowers at Dulles Airport,” Raskin recounted Thursday in Washington D.C. at a “Truth and Trauma” talk hosted by Georgetown University’s Center on Faith and Justice.

“They’ve abandoned critical thinking skills,” added Raskin, who sits on the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.

He said deprogramming experts have told him to be “as warm and affectionate and as personable as you can be with them and make them remember what life was like before they got into the cult.”

But “you have to be very emphatic about what the truth is and what facts are versus what is just derangement,” he added.

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[ffr]

1. I'm giving it a less than 0% chance of them snapping out of their cult tendencies.

Russians and republicans are one in the same, mindless programmable deadly drones.

[MerryBlooms]

2. It's all about money. The cult would disappear if Republicans

Started going to jail for the ripping off the idiots. Meanwhile, Republicans are laughing all the way to their offshore accounts.

[Funtatlaguy]

3. Bless him for trying but these people

Need professional reprogramming.
Even then, the success rate isn’t good.

[aeromanKC]

4. Fuck em!!

They can all rot in hell!!!!

[usonian]

5. You can't de-program in a short time. You can only outnumber them and deny them real power.

The hard core are like addicts.
And the people that Jamie Raskin is referring to are not ordinary citizens, they are owned/blackmailed/scared.
I am referring to voters.
Ignore the gonzo ones.
There are people "at the edge" who can be flipped. They went on for the joy ride.

Maga is a cult, and cults trap you in ways similar to ways that addiction does.
https://democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=16616466

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And one escapes often by "hitting rock bottom", when the lies and contradictions are overwhelming, or through outside acts of kindness (which can be rejected repeatedly until they aren't)

The hope is that enough people come to their senses to tip close races.

Elections seem to be won "at the edge"
https://democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=16589262

... what we can do is message the self-destructive nature of the cult and the wacky projection in the sense of "Every accusation is a confession."
More at the link above.

This may look a little disjointed, but it's late and I am plagiarizing myself.

[Steven Maurer]

7. They pretend like they're in a cult, but they're actually in 1984...

Held hostage by "the Party" and their hate filled voters.

It's not that they don't know they're lying, it's that they don't care.

[certainot]

8. all he has to do is recognize the dittohead cult, the cult all these subcults depend on. unfortunate

unfortunately the media and the analysts that are supposed to be doing their homework are still asleep and blaming it on minor players like social media ...

[Lunabell]

9. Omg! I thought this was satire!

An article from the Onion or something. Dayum!

[LuvLoogie]

10. "Tut, tut. Pish posh and balderdash!"

That's Jamie Raskin.

[NJCher]

13. Endearing

You gotta’ love Jamie.

[Faux pas]

11. Kickin'

[smirkymonkey]

12. They are hopeless, Jamie.

It's good of you to try, but these people are really just hopeless.

[no_hypocrisy]

14. My experience in Germany in 1979 and 1989

1979 -- I was invited to a private Jaeger Party (selected members who are hunters) where they blew their hunters' horns, ate their version of BBQ, drank beer, and sang songs. The songs were Nazi songs. No two ways about it. And sang with gusto. When my drunk friend announced there was a Jew at the table (me), they suddenly stopped singing and looked warily at me. Not a good situation. We left shortly thereafter.

1989 -- I was staying in a home near Wetzler. The head of the house invited me to the basement, where his "bar" was. Also in the basement was a glass covered box with Nazi memorabilia. Stuff like belt buckles (Gott mit uns/God is with us), daggers, and lots of swastikas.

My point: Even though Germany was defeated (again) in WWII, and Hitler killed himself, there will always be those who long for "the good ole days", meaning the Third Reich. I expect the MAGAs won't disappear, but go underground like the Nazis and their descendants.

[tanyev]

16. Yep. The swift emergence of this in the last few years is evidence that it was always there,

simmering under the surface. A lot of people have been waiting for someone like Donald Trump to come along and embolden them.

[dalton99a]

17. +1. Most senior officials in the Nazi regime were never prosecuted

The 200 or so who were tried at Nuremberg and elsewhere were the worst of the worst who got caught

[Silent3]

15. While I'm sure some Republicans in Congress are just as cultish...

…as Republican voters at large, there are many (most?) who aren’t delusional at all. They just want power at any price.

Deprogramming cult members is hard enough. Deprogramming immoral naked ambition would be a much harder task.