01-05-2020, 02:44 AM
(01-03-2020, 10:12 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: ** 03-Jan-2020 World View: Personality Cult
(01-03-2020, 08:10 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: > We don't need any martyrs on the Other Side. Trump already has his
> personality cut fully intact. How long will it last? If we are
> fortunate it will last about as long as that of Francisco Franco
> after his death. That one dissipated quickly.
I assume that by his "personality cult" you're referring to the 63
million smelly Trump supporters that you loathed and despised for
years as the "Tea Party."
I saw the warning signs. I could see through him for his extreme narcissism, if not sociopathy. (Narcissists elevat3e themselves yet discount everyone else; sociopaths are schemers; psychopaths are predators).
In any event, people are catching on. Maybe not the Tea Party types, but certainly the younger people entering the electorate as the Tea Party (largely people over 55) dies off a little very year.
Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Satan Hussein were highly effective in maintaining their personality cults. Truth has nothing to do with it.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
