Everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.

Many of my friends in the Reality Based Community are very puzzled by the adulation given by what seems to be an irreducible 39% of Americans to a man who is a massive failure as a businessman, who squandered a fortune given to him by his father only to be given another one; who squandered the second fortune and turned to supporting himself by laundering money for Russian gangsters and appearing on Nonreality TV as a fictitious version of himself; who is a racist who launched his political career promoting the racist lie that Barack Obama was not born in the United States; a serial sexual predator; an ignoramus; a pathological liar; a malignant narcissist; a cowardly bully who incites to violence when he isn ' t taunting anyone who displeases him with moronic insults unworthy of a second-grader; and who was placed in office by a foreign adversary that is very obviously blackmailing him.Chris Hedges offers an explanation. The phenomenon of the personality cult has ample precedent and it always adheres to particularly repulsive figures. As Hedges explains,Cult leaders arise from decayed communities and societies in which people have been shorn of political, social and economic power. The disempowered, infantilized by a world they cannot control, gravitate to cult leaders who appear omnipotent and promise a return to a mythical golden age. The cult leaders vow to crush the forces, embodied in demonized groups and individuals, that are blamed for their misery. The more outrageous...
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