Woman’s Attempt To Troll Liberals Backfires When Someone Notices This Disturbing Similarity

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

70. Have any of you read Eric Hoffer's

The True Believer? It was written in 1951 by a self-educated dockworker in San Francisco, about the psychological causes of fanaticism. The main premise is that mass movements promise a wonderful future, and their followers should be willing to sacrifice everything for that future. These movements toss aside the past and the present as either bad or irrelevant. ("Comes the revolution...&quot .

Hoffer argued that mass movements appeal to the frustrated; people who are unhappy with things as they are, by promising a glorious future. ("There'll be pie in the sky by and by&quot Also, the people who join a mass movement feel no longer alone and insecure.

Hoffer also argued that movements are interchangeable and that members of a movement which fails or with which they grow disillusioned can easily move from one movement to another.

The book is still in print and available in paperback. It's well worth reading.

I would also note that Hoffer was the single genuine American proletarian philosopher of the 20th century, and he was staunchly opposed to Marxism.