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.
- 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.]







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