The cancer infecting the political Left

[Bob Butler 54]

(12-11-2020, 09:21 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: You assigned one to Trump. Are you and Obama off limits? Obama is directly associated with one of the largest and most powerful personality cults this country has seen since the Nazi's. We got to see it in action and see what it can do last summer and we got to see the preparation for the violence and carnage that would ensue if the personality cult didn't get the President that it wanted in office. What's different for them here, we're here waiting for justification to wipe them off the face of the Earth and replace them with better people. However it gets done, the majority of country won't care when the time comes to eliminate them. I figure we are about a half a term away from the beginning of that endeavor.

So far, no one has defined what a personality cult is. I suppose it would be up to Pbower and Einzige to define since they are the ones who want to use the term. Thus far the only difference is that the goals that the politician are working for are undesirable. That is not at all satisfactory. It changes too much between people.

The protest this summer were much more about ending a systematic racism that has been going on for centuries. Trump took actions which seem supportive of the racism and violence, while the blues sought to avoid both. I do not see the protests as demanding a specific candidate for president, or a specific style of leadership. Most protestors would support whoever the Democrats ended up nominating.

I do see Trump gathering a quite personal loyalty. It seems people are more loyal to him than to the party. This enables him to hold the party hostage, to force the Republicans to support absurd positions like his election stealing lawsuits. I see him also as focused much more on improving his own position rather than improving the party's positions or Americans of all political affiliations.

Obama and Michelle have cults of loyalty as well. They cared about being good representatives of their race, about being the best as humans that they could be, to give no excuse other than prejudice to vote against another person of color. They also pursued the blue agenda. They definitely had a different style than Trump. I'm just not sure I can put a finger on what might make one the head of a personality cult, the other honored for his achieving his ideals.