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A Death Cult in our Midst.
We have confirmation. We have a political cult in this country. It is full of the same crank true believers other cults across history have. It is replete with the same dead-enders, conspiracy cranks, and White Supremacists that we have seen in the past. Some you probably know. This is the literal crazy uncle at Thanksgiving. We also know via polling that they are a vast minority of people in this country who are very loud. However, one of the cranks is the president, who encourages their antics. This is how they become dangerous. They hold power, which gives the illusion of the majority. In the recent past we have experienced a resurgence of their movement, oh lovers of liberty they claim to be. Live free or die has been subverted into the ghoulish live free and die.
They were in full display during the astroturfed “free states” marches that the president, as a good cult leader, promoted. They came with signs, full of allusions to conspiracy, such as QAnnon, and the Proud Boys as well as the anti-vaccine, by extension anti-science movements. These are part of the populist right, which mistrusts big government, and intellectual coastal elites. It’s beyond distrust. There is a level of Chinese Cultural Revolution thinking, where the egg heads don’t do useful work and are useless eaters. So they took to the streets, in clumps, without masks. That was the whole point. It was defiance of medical…