Interview of Cult Expert Steven Hassan: The Cult of trump

[tomhagen]

First we hung our hat on Mueller.
Now we’ve hung our hat on “principled republicans who will do the right thing”

Chump will sadly remain in office.

[raging moderate]

1. Maybe we need to remember Spike Jones and the City Slickers..

This wonderful band from the thirties created a very effective reply to the Hitler worshippers. "When the Fuhrer says, we is the Master Race, then we Heil! {Pfuh! Heil! (Pfuh!) right in the Fuhrer's face!....Is we not the Super Men? (Kid voice: Super Duper Super Men!)!"

[tomhagen]

4. Spike Jones

[raging moderate]

8. .

My old computer doesn't work very well, and I can barely get any comments online anymore.

[raging moderate]

9. .

Thanks so much!

[Fritz Walter]

2. Great interview, but I have a quick question?

How am I supposed to get 7-9 hours of sleep after watching this, especially the closing note?

[tomhagen]

3. I'm not worried about gun toting trumpanzees; I'm more worried about Thermo Nuclear Weapons.

Trumps last gasp will be to play with a Nuclear Device. With Nuclear Consequences for millions of innocent people. Legions of the burned and disfigured.

[mopinko]

5. i do too, but

i am pretty sure at this point we have the nixon launch rules in effect.

he has lost the military, imho, and they now see him as a clear and present danger.
they wont rise up and oppose him, but they sure hell wont follow him anywhere, and they wont let him push the button.

i have posted here occasionally about my nephew at the pentagon. he doesnt talk much, but he has said enough. their hair is on fire there.

[CrispyQ]

6. Fascists don't need a majority to take over, only a devoted cult.

Fintan O’Toole: Trial runs for fascism are in full flow
Babies in cages were no ‘mistake’ by Trump but test-marketing for barbarism

Tue, Jun 26, 2018, 05:00
by Fintan O’Toole

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan-o-toole-trial-runs-for-fascism-are-in-full-flow-1.3543375

Fascism doesn’t arise suddenly in an existing democracy. It is not easy to get people to give up their ideas of freedom and civility. You have to do trial runs that, if they are done well, serve two purposes. They get people used to something they may initially recoil from; and they allow you to refine and calibrate. This is what is happening now and we would be fools not to see it.

One of the basic tools of fascism is the rigging of elections – we’ve seen that trialled in the election of Trump, in the Brexit referendum and (less successfully) in the French presidential elections. Another is the generation of tribal identities, the division of society into mutually exclusive polarities. Fascism does not need a majority – it typically comes to power with about 40 per cent support and then uses control and intimidation to consolidate that power. So it doesn’t matter if most people hate you, as long as your 40 per cent is fanatically committed. That’s been tested out too. And fascism of course needs a propaganda machine so effective that it creates for its followers a universe of “alternative facts” impervious to unwanted realities. Again, the testing for this is very far advanced.

We aren't safe from this asshole until he's out of office, & even then he will try to fuck with things. IMO, the best thing that could happen is for the Con to suffer the ultimate Big Mac Attack.

on edit: My library has the book & I'm next on the list. Thanks for the post.

[Duppers]

10. Excellent article and post.

Thanks.

[underpants]

7. 👀

Watching later

[tomhagen]

11. The Jones Cult did not end well

[smirkymonkey]

12. Fascinating interview.

And scary as hell. I don't see any good way out of this nightmare other than Trump dying or being removed from office and imprisoned. If he wins, we are screwed, if he loses, it will be civil war and he will challenge the results.

The only way to rid ourselves of this sickness is for the cult leader to perish. He's a very unhealthy old man, but we can't rely on nature to take it's course in this case. He could live long enough to plunge us into a nuclear holocaust or a civil war that would tear this nation apart. All I know is that he needs to go and the sooner, the better. He is poison.