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Getting ready to worship their Tangerine God in Waco. (Original Post) riversedge Mar 2023 OP
Desecrating the American Flag Beachnutt Mar 2023 #1
+1 2naSalit Mar 2023 #3
remember Trump is the degenerate that humped the flag... agingdem Mar 2023 #4
Good Grief! Rhiannon12866 Mar 2023 #5
In the history of American social psychology no_hypocrisy Mar 2023 #2

no_hypocrisy

(46,150 posts)
2. In the history of American social psychology
Sat Mar 25, 2023, 10:39 AM
Mar 2023

this is just another divertissement where it's the only exciting thing in their lives.

Look at the crowds who showed up for traditional political oratory by Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Douglas, Robert Greene Ingersol, William Jennings Bryan. Later it was evangelists like Aimee Semple McPherson and Billy Sunday and later, Father Coughlin.

TFG is using his so-called celebrity for entertainment value to get crowds. They think they're part of something special. They're not. The same cluster of people used to show up for lynchings with picnic baskets.

Movies, DVD's, etc. don't have the emotional entertainment of a psychopathic man on stage getting angry and whipping up the crowd. Hitler did that well.

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