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Oct
06
2008

The Cult of Audacity of Hope…

Back after his acceptance speech at Invesco Field at Mile High in Denver, Colorado, I recall my girlfriend remarking that the attendees of the DNC looked like “pods” and Obama, their cult leader.

The videos below only serve to reinforce that belief in my mind.
(If you are unable to see the embedded “Obama Youth” video above, please click here.)
Or, perhaps, you’d like to view this little piece of indoctrination:
(If you are unable to see the children’s chorus singing for Obama in the embedded video above, please click here.)
Creepy.
These children in both videos are being indoctrinated into a religio-politico sect whether they realize it or not.  Some have compared these videos to Third Reich propaganda, but I don’t think that’s a fair comparison.  I think these videos speak directly to the Obamessiah Complex that a lot of liberal activists view their candidate with. 
Now, they’re brainwashing their children.  Sick.
I’m all for having and advocating a political ideology, but this truly has evolved into cult status.
Think I’m exaggerating?  OK.  That’s fair.  For the sake of argument, let’s look at some of the common characteristics of cults that can be found in a Google search with bracketed comments by me:
  • Members swear total allegiance to an all-powerful leader who they believe to be the Messiah. [Check.]
  • Rational thought is discouraged or forbidden. [Check.]
  • The cult’s recruitment techniques are often deceptive. [Check--at Obama rallies the first thing they want you to do is fill out a "supporter card" with personal info.]
  • The cult weakens the follower psychologically by making him or her depend upon the group to solve his or her problems. [Check, "Obama's gonna change it; Obama's going to lead us."]
  • The cults manipulate guilt to their advantage. [Check, class warfare/taxation]
  • The cult leader makes all the career and life decision of the members. [Check, "Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed."]
  • Cults exist only for their own material survival and make false promises to work to improve society. [Check, "95% of you will receive a tax cut."]
  • Cult members often work fulltime for the group for little or no pay. [Check, in part. Many have taken leaves of absence from their jobs to campaign full-time.]
  • Cult members are isolated from the outside world and any reality testing it could provide. [Check, in part. Their reality is the campaign, polls and the press cycle.]
  • Cults are anti-woman, anti-child, and anti-family. [Check, in part. While Michelle Obama has practically disappeared from the campaign trail, some would argue that the pro-choice stance of liberal activists meets the other two criteria.]
  • Cults are apocalyptic and believe themselves to be the remnant who will survive the soon-approaching end of the world. [Check. See: global warming or other crisis du jour.]
  • Many cults follow an “ends justify the means” philosophy. [Check.]
  • Cults, particularly in regard to their finances, are shrouded in secrecy. [Check. While his campaign finances are tracked to meet legal requirements, Obama has commented on how there are no financial records of his time in Illinois.]
  • There is frequently an aura of or potential for violence around cults. [Check. I've been to an Obama rally in NH where I had to pretend I was a supporter.  There was a lot of spite, vitriol and violent talk by the attendees for Republicans and Conservatives.]
How many items on that list does the Obama campaign fit?  Too many.

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