[quote] Latent death wish? I just don't get it.
My husband believes the whole thing is a death cult. A real death cult, not a similar thing to a death cult or a metaphor for a death cult. The real deal. The people are tribal, willfully ignorant, attracted to & enthralled by violence and the thrill of belonging to something that others see as dangerous & risky.
Wikipedia is more politically correct, using the term “destructive cult” rather than “death cult.”
[quote] John Gordon Clark argued that totalitarian systems of governance and an emphasis on money making as characteristics of a destructive cult. In Cults and the Family, the authors cite Shapiro, who defines a destructive cultism as a sociopathic syndrome, whose distinctive qualities include: [bold] "behavioral and personality changes, loss of personal identity, cessation of scholastic activities, estrangement from family, disinterest in society and pronounced mental control and enslavement by cult leaders [/bold]
Rightwing GQP politicians deliberately tell people to follow instructions with regard to covid that will result in death.
Mullah Omar, head of Afghanistan, offered to arrest Osama Bin Laden and hand him over to a neutral 3rd party . “Earlier this month, President Bush summarily rejected another Taliban offer to give up bin Laden to a neutral third country,” wrote The Washington Post on October 29, 2001.
Instead, Bush & Cheney insisted on a war, killing hundreds of thousands of people.
The UN told the world Saddam Hussein had no WMD and no interest in attacking anybody. But Bush and Cheney wanted a million dead Iraqis after his father’s war and subsequent sanctions had killed over a half-million Iraqi children.
George W Bush personally had 100 people executed. Personally. Cheney & Bush insisted upon making torture official US policy and gloated about Guantanamo and black sites where the CiA conducted torture.
The United States founded and funded the Taliban to fight the USSR in Afghanistan in1970/80s. The US installed Saddam Hussein in Iraq and funded him to make war on Iran. We built the Taliban and Hussein, then told Americans they had to be killed.
It started well before Trump. Henry Kissinger. Richard Nixon. Laos. Cambodia. Chile. Salvador Allende. Iraq-Iran War. USSR-Afghan War. Central American wars. Nicaragua. Samosa. Panama. Noriega. Honduras. El Salvador.
There’s always a Latin American strongman or a middle eastern leader of some ridiculously named “terrorist” organization that GQP tells America needs to to be killed. Qaddafi was our friend, then our enemy, then our friend again. Then we had him killed. On camera.
That’s
A
Fucking
Death
Cult.
Lyndon Johnson, who was never a nice man, knew he’d have to stay in Vietnam & escalate the war further so he decided not to run again for president. When a power-hungry man decides he doesn’t want a second term as the most powerful man on earth, you know some kind of sick shit is going down. Johnson decided he didn’t want to be part of the rightwing conservative death cult.
It’s still going strong