"How To Know You’re In a Mass Hysteria Bubble"
Where Scott Adams wrote the following in his blog it sparked a thought, I wonder, does politician worship count as a religion? After all, you are counting on your candidate to be your savior.
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... Trump never campaigned to be our moral leader. He presented himself as – in his own words “no angel” – with a set of skills he offered to use in the public’s interest. He was big on law and order, and equal justice under the law. But he never offered moral leadership.
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"There are a thousand things that can happen when you go light a rocket engine, and only one of them is good."
Tom Mueller of SpaceX, in Air and Space, Jan. 2011
kitesandtrainsandcats wrote:
Where Scott Adams wrote the following in his blog it sparked a thought, I wonder, does politician worship count as a religion? After all, you are counting on your candidate to be your savior.
For large sections of the left, politics is religion and the state/leader is god. The hysteria from the left following Trump's election was the hysteria of a fundamentalist religion that experienced the failure of its prophecy and the sudden ascendance of an Anti-Christ figure.
This is what political religion and a savior-leader looks like:
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There Are Four Lights!
Darmok wrote:
For large sections of the left, politics is religion and the state/leader is god. The hysteria from the left following Trump's election was the hysteria of a fundamentalist religion that experienced the failure of its prophecy and the sudden ascendance of an Anti-Christ figure.
That is scarily descriptive of the phenomena.And I remember some right wingers both in media and ones I knew in person saying outright Obama was the antichrist. Really? Don't you people have something productive to do, like refill the toilet paper?
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"There are a thousand things that can happen when you go light a rocket engine, and only one of them is good."
Tom Mueller of SpaceX, in Air and Space, Jan. 2011
Darmok wrote:
kitesandtrainsandcats wrote:
Where Scott Adams wrote the following in his blog it sparked a thought, I wonder, does politician worship count as a religion? After all, you are counting on your candidate to be your savior.
For large sections of the left, politics is religion and the state/leader is god. The hysteria from the left following Trump's election was the hysteria of a fundamentalist religion that experienced the failure of its prophecy and the sudden ascendance of an Anti-Christ figure.
This is what political religion and a savior-leader looks like:
Here's the one for Trump:
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