Writer Kurt Andersen joins Morning Joe to discuss ‘Evil Geniuses,’ which looks at the leaders who have shaped the U.S. economy. Aired on 01/11/2021.
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What is a Cult?
Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton, who once taught at Harvard Medical School, wrote a paper titled Cult Formation in the early 1980s. He delineated primary characteristics, which are the most common features shared by destructive cults, destructive cults like Trumpism.
1. A charismatic leader, who increasingly becomes an object of worship as the general principles that may have originally sustained the group lose power. That is a living leader, who has no meaningful accountability and becomes the single most defining element of the group and its source of power and authority.
2. A process of indoctrination or education is in use that can be seen as coercive persuasion or thought reform commonly called “brainwashing”. The culmination of this process can be seen by members of the group often doing things that are not in their own best interest, but consistently in the best interest of its leader.
3. The exploitation of group members by the leader and the ruling members.
Here are 10 warning signs of a potentially unsafe group or leader.
• Absolute authoritarianism without meaningful accountability.
• No tolerance for questions or critical inquiry.
• No meaningful financial disclosure regarding budget or expenses, such as an independently audited financial statement.
• Unreasonable fear about the outside world, such as impending catastrophe, evil conspiracies and persecutions.
• There is no legitimate reason to leave, former followers are always wrong in leaving, negative or even evil.
• Former members often relate the same stories of abuse and reflect a similar pattern of grievances.
• There are records, books, news articles, or broadcast reports that document the abuses of the group/leader.
• Followers feel they can never be “good enough”.
• The group/leader is always right.
• The group/leader is the exclusive means of knowing “truth” or receiving validation, no other process of discovery is really acceptable or credible.
As we can all see, when it comes to the warning signs and characteristics of a cult, Trump and his followers check most of the boxes.
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Hitler has been around longer than Hitler !
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Big businesses didn’t mind socialism when they were accepting huge financial bailouts during this pandemic. Oh but they “fear” it when they think the money may go to the peasants in society. Tax breaks for them OK,….. taxes for social security, education, infrastructure, health care, housing etc for the tax paying plebs, not ok
If taxes were eliminated, the people wouldn’t have representation, resulting in a corrupt authoritarian nation.
The Republican Party is now the party of cop killers except for Mitt Romney. There were many law enforcement officers from all over the country that was also involved in a coup to murder members of Congress including the vice president – this is unforgivable! Pelosi should call back the House immediately to start impeachment proceedings for Donald J. Trump and all the Republican party members involved in inciting violence and government overthrow, immediately. Pelosi and Democrats should not tolerate the language of appeasement for Trump or his gang of miscreants.
Lets go back to reality. What really hurts the poor without affecting the rich. Lotteries. Visa and Mastercard. Utility prices. Endless fees and permits.Gasoline , alcohol and cigarette taxes.The stock market. Income taxes are not really a thing. The rich could easily afford more, while the poor are given some protection form this one thing. What about the first five things?
Like Bernie Sanders said, “Greed is addictive”.
Who is an “evil genius”?
If you mean trumpie and his henchmen I think you can leave out “genius”!!
boycott all trump’s conspirators.
Adolph Twitter is dead
Money, Capitalism, Free enterprise. Thats why American companies invested in Nazi Germany.
Subpoena and prosecute all members of the Trump administration who have not yet resigned for insurrection and insurrection advice. Infected zombies in the white house with deep crying butthurt and insurrection and going to prison. https://youtu.be/jXAv2cDkWAA
And the Supreme Court making bribing of politicians legal.
Joe served in congress, from my hometown. he was fully immersed in the pseudo-reality of the GOP for quite a while. he should have a guilty look on his face.
Yeah. A lot of people in Germany in 1933 or so thought Hitler wasn’t really serious about his rhetoric and that the brown shirts were just a bunch of boy scouts. Apparently no one learns from history.
Looking up Evil Genuises… It’s not here!
Yes, yes money is the root. Hitler versus Trump we’ll see what to become of all of this. If you don’t learn from history, then history will repeat itself.
The death of the planet can be safely and accurately blamed on the Right.
Your grandchildren will never know the simple joy of going sledding.
Decades of lies at your children’s expense.
I’m glad someone finally said it: “There are 75 million Americans who share in this blame.”
(How can _they_ be made to face consequences?)
what sucks is I foresee a new level of judicial activism some how we need to get more than 2 party system cuz I was going to say amendments could be a solution but that would require democrat control of 38 [3/4] states but that’s insane when you think about it too be so binary.
Republicans voters have been trained to throw the baby out with the bathwater and whatever the opposite embrashing a whole based on one thing.
Democrats need to reform the tax code get rid of all these bush, obama, trump tax cuts
I am Australian. I have both of Kurt’s books. Fantasy Land and Evil Genuises.
Evil Genuises explains how the right captured the political narrative since the at least the 1970’s. Destroyed unions, capture the legal profession, captured the economics profession, set up a variety of so-called “think tanks” to influence the media, and owned the media. The Democrats have certainly not been without fault here but the Republicans have been mainly carrying the corporate can for the wealthy and powerful.
Fantasy Land explains how Americans have since the inception of the country have been susceptible to conman and shysters. Trump is but the latest version.
I’ve started watching Oliver Stones series “The untold history of America”
Episode 2 explains how the Democrats shafted Roosevelt’s loyal and competent VP Wallace and installed mediocre Harry Truman in 1945 who then replaced Roosevelt. The rest as they say is history. The world would have been a different place if not for that internal coup within the Democrat party.
https://watchdocumentaries.com/the-untold-history-of-the-united-states/?video_index=1