"I have gone on record as an author, a therapist, a professor, an expert courtroom witness–and an activist to document and oppose the ways in which false psychiatric diagnoses are used to stigmatize, even demonize people. But, I’ve never denied that mental illness exists. On the contrary. It is a formidable enemy and causes great human suffering.
Still, I am uncertain about how to describe certain political 'crowd' behaviors that might be characterized as 'mad,' cult-like, hysterical. In the Wall Street Journal
, Fouad Ajami, quotes Elias Cannetti’s 1960 work about Crowds and Power. Cannetti believes that marching together gives people the 'illusion of equality.' But Ajami views American pro-Obama crowds as behaving more and more like crowds on the Arab Street, with huge emotionality and faith in a Great Leader. Ajami states that the 'politics of charisma wrecked Arab and Muslim societies.' [Repeat that phrase to yourself, people -
TMR]
There are important reasons to vote for Obama and important reasons to vote for McCain. Neither candidate thrills me, both frighten me but for different reasons. But, what worries me even more than the candidates is the way in which so many Americans seem to have lost both their gravity and their sanity. They are behaving like drunken soccer fans or like ecstatic True Believers undergoing a religious transformation."--
Phyllis Chesler, looking at Obama's "progressives" and finding the craziest of (cultish) mobs instead, while everyone else is keeping their head - and brains - at
Pajamas Media.
Obama supporters "seem to have lost both their gravity and their sanity." I'd agree with that. I mean, no one who owns a business would turn it over to a person with no experience - but Obama supporters want us to do it with our entire country. And no one who's choosing their friends would pick someone they know hangs out with racists, criminals, and liars - but Obama supporters want us to do it with our entire country. And no one who wants to be thought of as intelligent would ignore all the disturbing signs that Barack Obama isn't telling us the whole truth - but Obama supporters want us to accept his word to deal honestly with our entire country. All of this points to a bunch of cult members who - like all cult members - is neither serious, mature, or in control of their critical faculties.
To me, this cult phenomena - which Obama supporters (like all cultists) even deny is occurring, even though everyone else sees it - can all be blamed on the massive cult indoctrination of the hippies in the '60's and '70's, and the fact they raised their kids with their parent's over-the-top anti-establishment ideas. That's why the Obama campaign emphasizes the youth vote: to circumvent the generation of adults, like me, who escaped the influence of the various ass-backwards NewAge nostrums they peddled.
I may be wrong, but I don't think so, and, whatever it is, if we get past this election without Obama succeeding, the United States will have dodged a bullet by less-than-inches, which is waaay too close for comfort. These people are insane and don't have anyone's best interests at heart. Like all cultists, they groove on nothing but their feelings of having a superior sense of morality, and they want it satisfied, even to the point of being willing to commit immoral acts to get it. But, to harken back to the era of the '60's, cultists "can't get no satisfaction". They will simply destroy everything to get their way. That is their way. Always has been. Look at the history of the '60's and '70's - was it a time of peace and love? No. I lived through it. It was actually a time of riots, poverty, confusion, and the constant teetering of our country on the edge of catastrophe - brought about by those who now call themselves "progressives".
Don't be fooled - cults are all about power - and candidates who rise from Chicago "machine" politics are notorious for sharing that ambition. This is a marriage made in Hell, people, with a shotgun pointed at our heads. Will you do as they say?
Or will you face them, bravely, with:
"People who want to talk about the 'New Majority' or 'The Next Right' or 'Republican renewal' need to get used to the idea that the conservative coalition of the future will be a loud, rowdy and unruly bunch, composed of diverse people with disparate beliefs.
