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“…cukoo cult of political extremists.”
“…why he left the Republican cult.”
Ok… cult-uralleftists… agentsofmoney… D’s… you READY?
‘Cult’ misses the point. Culture, not cult. A cult has a rigid consistantcy in that it has either a set collection of beliefs and standards, or at least an unchanging leadership, with everyone following a single individual. What you all are calling a cult is just the temporary manifestations of ever-changing drawn-out cultural TACTICS, and very expendable ‘leaders’, all in the service of one goal. The self annointed ‘real Americans’ want their country and ways back — they do this for love so they fight and sacrifice. Bear in mind, the truth comes second for these folks. . . . You’re blindly grasping the elephant’s tail and calling it a snake. The ‘elephant’ is the sum of the behaviors we see from them over time. Whether the ‘real Americans’ themselves are conscious of their true motivations or not, patterns and intentions can be seen by those not emotionally biased in their favor.
The moneyed interests (I wonder how they sleep at night) who back them right now through their political and media/PR agents, the one percent so obsessed thinking money can buy them happiness and who can’t slow down and enjoy right now, do have a cult — money worship — always have had and always will. But for the big majority of ‘real Americans’ it ain’t about the money, money, money, or the ba-bling ba-bling. This apparent fetish is primarily a useful facade and rationalization, or at most a temporary phase which would quickly fade if they were to achieve cultural hegemony. They need to take it back in time when their ‘cultural music’ made them all unite. They’d become much more socialistic within their unchallenged class. If they were to go so far as to revoke the citizenship or perhaps even eliminate the everyday presence of ‘non-realAmericans’ by deportation, imprisonment, enslavement or genocide, they’d likely become quite communitarian at that point, IMO.
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