The Cult of Personality
From the Wikipedia article (Cult of personality): A cult of personality arises when an individual uses mass media, propaganda, or other methods to create an idealized, heroic, and at times worshipful image, often through unquestioning flattery and praise.
What we are seeing in American politics is a true cult of personality where Hillary Clinton is concerned. The sitting president of the United States, Barak Hussein Obama, is heaping flattery and praise upon her, as if she were the embodiment of a saint sent to save us from our sins, and continues to fawn over her to the point of repugnance. Hillary's political commercials praise her for her untiring and magnanimous work with children, instead of telling us how she is going to fix our economic problems (of which are both insurmountable and incomprehensible). The reality of Hillary Clinton is being entombed, while the fantasy is being actualized.
These facts alone should generate fear and despair in the heart of every person in this country, however, half of the population is pledging blind faith and unquestioning allegiance to both Hillary Clinton and the Democrat party. The Clinton Cult of Personality has been born.
This point was driven home to me in a recent conversation that I had on social media with a woman whom I shall call Liz. Despite the overwhelming (and still building) body of evidence, Liz has decided that it is more palatable to have a criminal as a president in lieu of someone who she finds personally distasteful. Regardless of the fact that she'll be voting to put a sexual predator back in the White House; regardless of the fact that Hillary is going to be useless as a president while she is under constant investigation and scrutiny for crimes; regardless of anything, anything at all, Liz shall vote for someone who is representative of everything that the liberals purport to despise. And Liz will do this with a clear conscience.
The Democrat party has lowered itself to the status of a cult - a real cult - no better (and no different) than the cult that followed Jim Jones. The Democrats are no longer a political party, but have chosen instead a path of brainwashed minions of their cult; altruistic goals no longer a part of their ideology. They much prefer the cesspool of bought and paid for politicians, politicians who have brought America to its financial knees, over any chance of repairing a broken system in Washington DC.
As they say, this fish stinks from the head down. Or, as George Carlin put it, "Garbage in, garbage out."
Of course, it has been suggested that the followers of Trump are no different. This does not hold true if the facts are taken into account. The Republican party has been ripped in half because of Trump. That doesn't happen in a cult. Nobody is idealizing or worshipping Trump. We know he's not perfect and we accept that he has said some terrible things. These are not the reasons that we want to see him as president, though. What we want to see is an end to the Clinton Crime Family and an end to criminals in Washington DC who have turned our government into their own playground for getting rich at the expense of the people of the United States. It has to start somewhere and Trump appears to be a good tool to begin the real work of putting this country back on its feet.
To fully understand what has happened in the United States and where it has gone wrong, you have to start 240 years ago, when the country was born. The government was set up for average men to take a political position, for a short period of time, in order to make things better for everyone. To that end, a financial safety net was built into the system. These men would be leaving their businesses behind and paid very little for their service, so it was imperative that we ensure they would have a place to stay and that their living expenses would be covered. It was the least that we could do for those who chose public service over their own needs.
This system worked for 100 years. This is the system that saw us through the beginning of the country to the end of the Civil War. There was no federal income tax and the central government was doing its job. If nothing else, the end of slavery proves that the centralized federal government was still legitimate through to the end of the war between the states. The states themselves still maintained their sovereign status even though the southern states needed to be closely monitored. Secession was proved illegal, but this is where our government first gained real power over the sovereignty of the states.
It is hard to say exactly when people began to realize just how much money could be made by using our government as a stepping stone, but the beginnings of the career politician can be seen after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. For the next 90 or so years, the federal government evolved, up to the days of the Kennedy administration. Over the course of those 90 years, federal income tax was enacted (originally to pay for the Civil War) and little by little elected members of the federal government were giving themselves raises and benefits and generally making career in politics a reality. These politicians were also strengthening the power of the central government and building a beast that, at the time, they would have had no idea was slowly taking on a life of its own, like a Frankenstein monster.
Still, the benefits that we were reaping as a nation overshadowed the reality of what we were creating. Certainly, these benefits were not found acceptable by everyone - benefits like Women's Suffrage, desegregation, civil rights, and so many other important strides forward. Of worthy note, these strides forward were championed, almost exclusively, by the Republican party, which was started by Abraham Lincoln all those years ago.
But after the assassination of JFK, something strange happened. The Democrat party started the welfare state and somehow managed to claim civil rights and other progressive policies for its very own. Brilliantly they maneuvered themselves into the position of being the party for the downtrodden, the disaffected, and the minorities (even though they were the party responsible for the creation of the KKK - the very same party that opposed basic human rights early on). For all of these reasons, Lyndon B. Johnson is hailed as one of the greatest presidents of all time.
Yes, the party of JFK, a man who once famously said, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country", managed to do a 180 degree turn and not only subsidize those who felt powerless, but turned the federal government into the entire country's nanny. In another coup for the Democrat party, they managed to get all of their followers to believe that they were owed by the federal government and anyone who would oppose such an ideology could be nothing more than cold hearted rich men who were out to destroy the very lives of those who were not rich.
At one time, communities took care of their own. They didn't need a central government to be their nanny. If large scale issues became a problem, they had their sovereign state to fall back on. Again, they didn't need a central government to be their nanny. But, at this point, the dawning of the career politicians, made a reality over the course of 200 years of government, had to prove, beyond doubt, that the American people could not survive without them. President Johnson was their stepping stone, and the evolution of politics into the 21st century has set it in granite.
As a point of reference, let's consider the greatest accomplishment of President Barack Hussein Obama - The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). The entitled progressive liberals, having forgotten that JFK told them not to look to the federal government as their nanny, proclaimed that it was a human right to have free health care. They voted in the man who they believed would give them that free health care, the care that was their right as human beings. Rather than actually getting the care they believed they were entitled to, they got a law telling them that if they didn't purchase that which they couldn't afford, the IRS would fine them and jail them if it came to that.
Obama, the eminent Democrat and giver of free cell phones, is hailed as a great president, while racial unrest has reached an all time high under his steady hand at the wheel of this country. There are so many problems with the 8 years that B. Hussein Obama ruled over the United States, I cannot begin to count them all in this article. A column for a different time and date (you can count on that).
Hillary Clinton promises jobs. Hillary promises that she will fix our failing infrastructure and will hire hundreds of thousands of workers to get the job done. Where, in the world, is that money going to come from? We are nearly 20 trillion in debt - we are bankrupted. Just as Obama's promise of health care got him elected, health care in the form of a law telling every American to purchase health care that they cannot afford or go to jail, Hillary's promise will also pack venom that nobody foresees. This promise is coming from the woman who spent the last 30 years making a living and getting rich off of the tax payers of this country; the woman who is going to take her sex offender husband right back into the White House with her and he'll have a brand new crop of interns to molest; the woman who is in the middle of an FBI investigation and whose closest advisor is the daughter of a member of the Muslim Brotherhood...And I'm only scratching the surface of the life and times of this career criminal named Hillary Clinton.
The Democrat National Committee needs to change its name. It should opt for The Democrat National Cult. They'll even be able to keep their initials, the DNC. Their leader, Hillary Clinton, is morally bereft and ethically bankrupt. Even a blind man can see that. The Democrats are a cult and, as Liz so wonderfully proves, they will blindly vote, with unquestioning allegiance, to keep their criminal representatives in power. That, by definition, is a cult.
On the bright side, we made it 240 years. Not bad for an experiment in a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. What a shame to see it end this way.
This system worked for 100 years. This is the system that saw us through the beginning of the country to the end of the Civil War. There was no federal income tax and the central government was doing its job. If nothing else, the end of slavery proves that the centralized federal government was still legitimate through to the end of the war between the states. The states themselves still maintained their sovereign status even though the southern states needed to be closely monitored. Secession was proved illegal, but this is where our government first gained real power over the sovereignty of the states.
It is hard to say exactly when people began to realize just how much money could be made by using our government as a stepping stone, but the beginnings of the career politician can be seen after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. For the next 90 or so years, the federal government evolved, up to the days of the Kennedy administration. Over the course of those 90 years, federal income tax was enacted (originally to pay for the Civil War) and little by little elected members of the federal government were giving themselves raises and benefits and generally making career in politics a reality. These politicians were also strengthening the power of the central government and building a beast that, at the time, they would have had no idea was slowly taking on a life of its own, like a Frankenstein monster.
Still, the benefits that we were reaping as a nation overshadowed the reality of what we were creating. Certainly, these benefits were not found acceptable by everyone - benefits like Women's Suffrage, desegregation, civil rights, and so many other important strides forward. Of worthy note, these strides forward were championed, almost exclusively, by the Republican party, which was started by Abraham Lincoln all those years ago.
But after the assassination of JFK, something strange happened. The Democrat party started the welfare state and somehow managed to claim civil rights and other progressive policies for its very own. Brilliantly they maneuvered themselves into the position of being the party for the downtrodden, the disaffected, and the minorities (even though they were the party responsible for the creation of the KKK - the very same party that opposed basic human rights early on). For all of these reasons, Lyndon B. Johnson is hailed as one of the greatest presidents of all time.
Yes, the party of JFK, a man who once famously said, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country", managed to do a 180 degree turn and not only subsidize those who felt powerless, but turned the federal government into the entire country's nanny. In another coup for the Democrat party, they managed to get all of their followers to believe that they were owed by the federal government and anyone who would oppose such an ideology could be nothing more than cold hearted rich men who were out to destroy the very lives of those who were not rich.
At one time, communities took care of their own. They didn't need a central government to be their nanny. If large scale issues became a problem, they had their sovereign state to fall back on. Again, they didn't need a central government to be their nanny. But, at this point, the dawning of the career politicians, made a reality over the course of 200 years of government, had to prove, beyond doubt, that the American people could not survive without them. President Johnson was their stepping stone, and the evolution of politics into the 21st century has set it in granite.
As a point of reference, let's consider the greatest accomplishment of President Barack Hussein Obama - The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). The entitled progressive liberals, having forgotten that JFK told them not to look to the federal government as their nanny, proclaimed that it was a human right to have free health care. They voted in the man who they believed would give them that free health care, the care that was their right as human beings. Rather than actually getting the care they believed they were entitled to, they got a law telling them that if they didn't purchase that which they couldn't afford, the IRS would fine them and jail them if it came to that.
Obama, the eminent Democrat and giver of free cell phones, is hailed as a great president, while racial unrest has reached an all time high under his steady hand at the wheel of this country. There are so many problems with the 8 years that B. Hussein Obama ruled over the United States, I cannot begin to count them all in this article. A column for a different time and date (you can count on that).
Hillary Clinton promises jobs. Hillary promises that she will fix our failing infrastructure and will hire hundreds of thousands of workers to get the job done. Where, in the world, is that money going to come from? We are nearly 20 trillion in debt - we are bankrupted. Just as Obama's promise of health care got him elected, health care in the form of a law telling every American to purchase health care that they cannot afford or go to jail, Hillary's promise will also pack venom that nobody foresees. This promise is coming from the woman who spent the last 30 years making a living and getting rich off of the tax payers of this country; the woman who is going to take her sex offender husband right back into the White House with her and he'll have a brand new crop of interns to molest; the woman who is in the middle of an FBI investigation and whose closest advisor is the daughter of a member of the Muslim Brotherhood...And I'm only scratching the surface of the life and times of this career criminal named Hillary Clinton.
The Democrat National Committee needs to change its name. It should opt for The Democrat National Cult. They'll even be able to keep their initials, the DNC. Their leader, Hillary Clinton, is morally bereft and ethically bankrupt. Even a blind man can see that. The Democrats are a cult and, as Liz so wonderfully proves, they will blindly vote, with unquestioning allegiance, to keep their criminal representatives in power. That, by definition, is a cult.
On the bright side, we made it 240 years. Not bad for an experiment in a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. What a shame to see it end this way.
As usual... Very well said sir.
ReplyDeleteVery informative. A few new things I didn't know.
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