A Political Cult

The list of falsehoods and conspiracy theories Trump has purveyed is staggering. Trump’s reality is a delusion that is sustained by the rampant propaganda of bizarre right wing websites. Not only is Trump a victim of blatant propaganda, conspiracy theories and lies by consuming and believing in it, he is a purveyor of it.

The delusions of the right wing and misunderstanding of reality is due to a lack of critical thinking and confirmation bias that runs rampant in an increasingly complex world.

It’s easy for non-thinking know nothings to misrepresent things when you don’t understand them. They characterize and frame a straw-man representation, to argue against something ridiculous. This happens constantly, because thinking is very hard in a complex world. Science is beyond simple truths that water freezes at 32 degrees, its beyond what the average person can even fathom let along begin to understand.

So understand it they won’t, because science and knowledge of the world reduces the fiction of religion at a steady pace. Science doesn’t care what you believe.

As far as the delusions of the right wing, the rise of propagandistic social media and fake news has enraptured and enthralled Trump supporters, because they want to believe it. This causes them to have a conflict with reality. “Alternative facts”, they claim, and conspiracy theories are created to rationalize their idiotic perception of reality based on whatever picture with 4 words that their dimwitted cousin shared on Facebook.

So justifiably “true” news becomes “fake news”. Ignorance becomes strength. They are in too deep and these delusions that millions of illegals voted, that Obama tapped Trump tower, that Hillary sold Uranium to the Russians must persist for them, or their entire world view will become shattered. Psychology tells us the brain won’t allow that. The decay will be gradual. Until then, there will be serious damage to the United States of America and its institutions of knowledge and justice.

Psychology tells us the brain won’t allow that.

the psychological “Firewall” ???

In psychology and cognitive science, a schema (plural schemata or schemas) describes a pattern of thought or behavior that organizes categories of information and the relationships among them. It can also be described as a mental structure of preconceived ideas, a framework representing some aspect of the world, or a system of organizing and perceiving new information.[2] Schemata influence attention and the absorption of new knowledge: people are more likely to notice things that fit into their schema, while re-interpreting contradictions to the schema as exceptions or distorting them to fit. Schemata have a tendency to remain unchanged, even in the face of contradictory information. Schemata can help in understanding the world and the rapidly changing environment. People can organize new perceptions into schemata quickly as most situations do not require complex thought when using schema, since automatic thought is all that is required

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema_(psychology

There has been an inability for Trump and his Administration to admit any fault to an extent that has gone beyond bizarre. There have been others that have presented themselves in a similar manner, I dare to invoke Godwins law and mention Hitler.

We see Trumps narcissism on full display through his inability to admit fault on so many occasions, constantly doubling down on ridiculous notions, falsehoods, conspiracy theories and flat out stupidity in the face of nation that over half of its citizens know better, it becomes vicariously embarrassing to witness.

What is extremely odd to me, is to what lengths Trump, his administration, the propaganda machine, and subsequently his supporters go to rationalize every wrong move by Trump in an attempt to skew truth and reason to make it look “good”. It is far beyond preposterous on many occasions to do so. With reports coming out that the administration was in turmoil, Trump states proudly his administration is “A fine tuned machine”, a joke that reverberates today to all but those not emotionally invested in what has became glaringly obvious, this political cult. Today, among one of the most trivial matters when Trump mistakenly tweeted “covfefe”, Sean Spicer refused to admit it was in error and that it was a word known to a small circle of people. When asked what it meant, Spicer ignored the question and moved on to another. What was a funny, light hearted error has become a sign of something dangerous, of something sinister.

This sign of a dangerous inability for the cult to admit any error, mistakes or wrongdoing was there all along. It has gained steam in recent weeks, refusing to admit that Trumps trip overseas was anything but glorious and a massive success, despite alienating some of our historically and most prevalent key allies further. There was no admitting error in Trumps call for a Muslim ban, instead threatening the court to see them in court. The list goes on and on.

Just as disturbingly, Trump’s “White House Director of Strategic Communications”, Hope Hicks, released this:

“President Trump has a magnetic personality and exudes positive energy, which is infectious to those around him,” the statement said. “He has an unparalleled ability to communicate with people, whether he is speaking to a room of three or an arena of 30,000. He has built great relationships throughout his life and treats everyone with respect. He is brilliant with a great sense of humor . . . and an amazing ability to make people feel special and aspire to be more than even they thought possible.”

Of course, this whole idea of Trump being positive, magnetic and his unparalleled ability to communicate is laughable. What we have here is an inability to admit flaws, to present their savior in an infallible light. What is amazing, is that this sentiment trickles down to every day Trump supporters. Anyone engaging with some negative commentary on Trump in an open forum online will know what I am referring to. There is no admitting Trump and team is wrong, there, laying in wait is a constant swarm of frothy supporters who wish to rationalize every wrong to a right. I’m sure a psychological phenomenon ought to be attributed to such mass behavior and today we are living in a golden age for political scientists and psychologists to take to the helm to identify and describe this absolutely queer behavior. Of course, not every Trump supporter will react in this manner either, but you can be sure there are many who do.

It seems part of this inability to fess up to error to might be do the immense pressure that the White House and their supporters who are emotionally invested in this political cult. The emotional investment into the most disastrous presidency we have ever witnessed, and I don’t mean this lightly. There is not one iota of hyperbole here when I write. The danger of not admitting error, the likeness of that quality to Hitler, the massive push of the right wing to go so far right anything that resembles actual news and fact becomes is a liberal conspiracy. The massive amount of propaganda that is being dispersed daily, which really ramped up at the onset of the Obama administration and Social media, the wracking of Trump and supporters minds to be reduced to delusional conspiracy theories to justify why their leader is infallible and the victim of a media onslaught. It is no wonder there are daily leakers blowing the whistle on this administration on a regular basis.

The administrations psychosomatic narrative, this amateur hour hustle that may have gotten Trump somewhere in shady Trump brand dealings, does not cut it when running a superpower. The population, aside from the deluded 30% or so that has been brainwashed by decades of propaganda, can see through this madness yet they attempt it anyway. Do they believe the lies and rationalizations themselves? It is very possible. It is very scary if they do. They are on a path that the likes of was never seriously thought to occur in these United States. A degenerative, fascist, damaging administration who’s impact will reverberate through time and history and not on the good side of it.

We can understand the truth here, we can analyze what’s happening and we can call a spade a spade, regardless of how bizarre and unbelievable it has become. These are dangerous and interesting times and we the people need cogent explanations of just how reckless, delusional, brazen and perilous that this administration is.

Dan Rather ,a very established journalist, with a background of reporting myriad presidencies, commented that Trump is very angry that French President took the stage , after the decision to pull out of the Paris accords, and is slashing out, causing an unprecedented damage to America.

It may be, that some form of correction may yet be possible, but is Trump such a man, as to afford himself such a humiliation as admitting failure? He acts like a New York hustler, using the street smarts of a businessman not in touch with how political process does not equal to it, thereby denigrating so called political ideals, ideals without political co-operation can never become progressive.

What’s ahead of us, sorry to say, is, what has been suggested, that there is an occult strength here playing in the socio-political field, and he, Trump, is merely a political animus, who has risen to the occasion, he’ll or highwater. His son in-law, Kushner, appears to be to some, as some sort of antichrist figure, at a very worrisome time.

If this vision has any credibility, it would be to start a war, not here on earth, but in the occult world of spiritual strength, which has been revealed throughout the ages.

This may not be entirely adjacent to the concept of a cult, it would be more possession of some sort, more of what spiritualists have feared, as the time of fear and trembling , when, if allowed to go on, may mean the gnashing of teeth and the pulling of hair later on,
by those of lower based instinctual reactions effected through sublime but evil designs. Some notable ones, are the Temtations-of Christ, and of Adam and Eve. It is the machinations of misconstrued efforts to profit the few, through the loss of the many. It is the ultimate test of struggle and overcome the humane and manlike designs by the unearthly.

What is it to gain the whole world, in order to loose your eternal soul?

Desperate selfishness blindly denies any form of final judgement, as encompassed by any sense of morality.

Surprising how, the Vatican remains silent, as it did, during the horrors of the Holocaust. They’d be better off collecting daisies on a bright sunlit meadow, a bunch of sacred cows, chewing on their cud

Only a catastrophe can save this administration. And surely, it will come, unless a sudden and final solution can be found to avert this shipwreck.

Otherwise, we go down with the captain and his crew.