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Eliot Rosewater

(34,282 posts) Fri Dec 7, 2018, 07:40 PM Dec 2018

If proven to you someone is a relative failure at their job and you keep supporting [View all]

them, you are a victim of the cult of personality.

This is true about rump fans and some others. We are at a stage in our society we cant afford to do this anymore.

No matter how much we may like someone.

One of the reasons the right hates Obama so viscerally is he was very successful in spite of their unprecedented obstruction. He helped average people, over and over. They hate that.

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If proven to you someone is a relative failure at their job and you keep supporting [View all] Eliot Rosewater Dec 2018 OP

Not much can be done to save deplorables Cary Dec 2018 #1

And no one in his admin got indicted. They didn't call him "No Drama, Obama" for nothing. brush Dec 2018 #2

This! mcar Dec 2018 #3

And some others! Eliot Rosewater Dec 2018 #5

Yes, and the cult of personality also explains why some politicians implying R B Garr Dec 2018 #4

K&R Jamaal510 Dec 2018 #6