Posted on 09/30/2008 9:26:50 AM PDT by just deserts
It really isn’t that important.
The pictures I remember...The people seemed to be on top of the world. Little did they know their lives were about to be cut short. The prophet Hosea said it well, “For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind”.
I didn’t remember that. LOL!
I agree with Ali Sina for the most part (the cult of personality is spot-on, IMO), but he needs to stay away from diagnosing people.
Ping for later
Maybe someone with more experience in human behavior and pathological narcissism can answer these questions:
1. What if the Obmanation loses (especially closely)? How will he react? Will he be magnanimous? Will he be angry? Will he let go and tell his minions to move on? Or will he be in denial and create havoc?
2. What if he fails in his quests? What if the policies & legislation he implements or supports are failures, especially catastrophically so? Example: health care for children in Hawaii. What will he do and how will he react? What does that mean for the country and those that so adamantly supported him? What happens to cults when the leader is "found out" and the cult followers are betrayed? Jim Jones? Hitler in the bunker?
3. It is very clear the MSM is seriously in the tank for the Obamanation. What will happen if they turn on him or at the very least starting telling the truth? What if a miracle occurs and all this nonsense from his past is truly investigated and a 60 Minute special (ha!) on his previous associations are revealed for all to see? When the “cat is out of the bag”, what will be his reaction? Given that the MSM has shown cult like tendencies in their fawning over the Obamanation, what will their reaction be when he is found out?
4. How will blacks feel when their savior, their messiah fails and fails badly? How will whites react to the Obmanation's failure and the cult like supporters of the Obmanation? What does this portend for the future of race relations and our country? How will this ever be reconciled?
Glen Beck reminded me this AM that Hillary had said that the Obmanation has never been tested, he had not faced true criticism. Clearly he has not been vetted publicly. From a pathological narcissist perspective, how will he react?
schu
Bump for future reference
BTT.
OUTSTANDING!!
Thanks Polarik. Did I ping this thread already, or did I only bump it.
Your-eyes-will-glaze-over-Ping. Sorry if it’s a duplicate.
...read it once before, even more scary the second time.
Thanks for the ping.
Obama is a National Socialist
www.freerepublic.com ^ | October 27, 2008 | Kevmo
Posted on Monday, October 27, 2008 4:19:47 PM by Kevmo
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2116981/posts
Hoffer argues that mass movements such as Fascism and Communism spread by promising a glorious future. To be successful, these mass movements need the adherents to be willing to sacrifice themselves and others for the future goals. To do so, mass movements need to devalue both the past and the present. Mass movements appeal to frustrated people who are dissatisfied with their current state, but are capable of a strong belief in the future. As well, mass movements appeal to people who want to escape a flawed self by creating an imaginary self and joining a collective whole. Some categories of people who may be attracted to mass movements include poor people, misfits, and people who feel thwarted in their endeavors. Hoffer quotes extensively from leaders of the Nazi and Communist parties in the early part of the 20th Century, to demonstrate, among other things, that they were competing for adherents from the same pool of people predisposed to support mass movements. Despite the two parties' fierce antagonism, they were more likely to gain recruits from their opposing party than from moderates with no affiliation to either.
Thanks to LucyT for the ping.
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