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Bush is the leader of a cult.



I came across this Characteristics of religious cults, sects, and alternative religious movements, which is really just a list to other websites, which have some wild stuff on them.

I particularly like this one, from Cults 101: Checklist of Cult Characteristics. My favorite thing here is that pretty much all of these apply EXACTLY and perfectly to the new society that Bush & Co. are forging in the USA. Take a look:

    1. The group is focused on a living leader to whom members seem to display excessively zealous, unquestioning commitment.
    2. The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members.
    3. The group is preoccupied with making money.
    4. Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished.
    5. Mind-numbing techniques are used to suppress doubts about the group and its leader(s).
    6. The leadership dictates sometimes in great detail how members should think, act, and feel
    7. The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself, its leader(s), and members
    8. The group has a polarized us- versus-them mentality, which causes conflict with the wider society.
    9. The group’s leader is not accountable to any authorities
    10. The group teaches or implies that its supposedly exalted ends justify means that members would have considered unethical before joining the group
    11. The leadership induces guilt feelings in members in order to control them.

There’s a few other ones, but I mean, damn! How clear cut is that? That’s pretty much the Cult of Anti-Terrorism right there! BAM!







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