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Kid Berwyn

(14,862 posts)
Fri Oct 25, 2019, 11:28 PM Oct 2019

Hey, Congressional Democrats! Go Big!

Investigate. Document. Indict. Impeach Demented Donnie for ALL his high crimes, misdemeanors and treasons.

Then, use the opportunity to tell We the People how all roads lead to Putin — and show what has been done to harm the United States on television.

Later, if Moscow Mitch, Lindsey Leningram and the GOPNRA Senate won’t convict and remove, no matter what, fine.

The Reputin Party can spend 2020 explaining how they let a traitor stay in office to continue harming the country.

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Hey, Congressional Democrats! Go Big! (Original Post) Kid Berwyn Oct 2019 OP
It won't matter to the cultists. They'll eat it up like hogs on slop. We're fotunate that they're in abqtommy Oct 2019 #1
There may only be one hope: Gamera, the Children's Friend Kid Berwyn Oct 2019 #2

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
1. It won't matter to the cultists. They'll eat it up like hogs on slop. We're fotunate that they're in
Sat Oct 26, 2019, 12:09 AM
Oct 2019

the minority. I apologize to all actual hogs for that metaphor.

Kid Berwyn

(14,862 posts)
2. There may only be one hope: Gamera, the Children's Friend
Sat Oct 26, 2019, 09:46 AM
Oct 2019
Can the Trump cult be deprogrammed?

Here’s what this mind control expert says


Written by Chauncey DeVega / Salon October 22, 2019

EXCERPT...

In an effort to answer these questions, I recently spoke with Steven Hassan, one of the world’s foremost experts on mind control and cults. Hassan is the author of several bestselling books, including “Combating Cult Mind Control” and “Freedom of Mind: Helping Loved Ones Leave Controlling People, Cults, and Beliefs.” His new book is “The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control.”

SNIP...

To get your loved ones or friends out of Trump’s cult, you need to reach out to them strategically. Don’t start with saying how stupid you think the Trump cultists are. And I would also appeal to people who are Trumpists to stop being so hostile to people who do not support Donald Trump. To try to get people out of Trump’s cult we should first try to engage them in an intelligent conversation about the psychology of influence. We should also talk to Trumpists about how to better discern facts from opinions and beliefs.

One of the universal techniques that I teach my clients is that you want to focus on another group initially, and not the group in which the person you are trying to help is a member. Focus on China, for example, or some other country that is engaging in brainwashing of its population.

To extricate someone from a cult such as Trump’s, you should also ask the person to think about people who have lied to them or people who took advantage of them. Ask them to reflect on an experience where someone hired them and then refused to pay them. Would they want to work for someone like that again? Would they trust someone like that again?

In this moment with Donald Trump and his movement, we also need to have conversations based on love and respect to take control of the fact that we are on one planet together and our mutual survival or destruction depends on us ending this massive social and political polarization.

SOURCE: https://www.alternet.org/2019/10/can-the-trump-cult-be-deprogrammed-heres-what-this-mind-control-expert-says/

So, it may be there is Hope. In the meantime, we must make our case to the vast middle, the neither D nor R people, the Independents. Thanks for giving a damn, abqtommy!
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