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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI now call it "mob delusion" Trump + the GOP+ Trump MAGAs.
I didn't believe in this stuff before but know I do. I see how Jim Jones was able to do what he did. I don't understand why it works. It's almost like they have all been hypnotized. PBS Rise of the Nazis will be interesting tonight.
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I now call it "mob delusion" Trump + the GOP+ Trump MAGAs. (Original Post)
Boogiemack
Nov 2020
OP
"It's easier to fool people than to convince them they've been fooled" - Mark Twain
groundloop
Nov 2020
#3
2naSalit
(81,556 posts)1. Subliminal messaging via...
fuxnooz.
Clearly fogged in
(1,895 posts)2. All lost souls
All lost souls who all of a sudden bought into an identity. They could see themselves as strong as the men they answer to. They could hear themselves using the words flung around boardrooms. They could never have read walter mitty.
groundloop
(11,371 posts)3. "It's easier to fool people than to convince them they've been fooled" - Mark Twain
And trump, being an expert con man/carnival barker, knows this all too well. He's a master at manipulating the gullible.