The Cults of Trump

We are all aware of the outcome of the 2020 Election by now, as well as the backlash from the Trump campaign. As of the writing of this, The Trump administration is still not letting the Biden Transition Team begin the transition of power. No one who has paid attention to things over the last few years should be surprised by this, Trump himself eluded to there not being a peaceful transition of powers.

What has surprised many is the record turnout for President Trump and the unprecedented 73,792,645 vote Trump received. How could so many vote for the man given everything that has happened in the last 4 years? What’s worse, according to some reports, 80% of those voters honestly believe Joe Biden is stealing the election. That’s over 58 million people who honestly believe Trump’s rather interesting fabrications. Forbes put the number as high as 88%.

So, what’s going on?

Some would have you believe these are rabid racists. Others maintain that Trump is fighting a dark and shadowy group that seeks to undermine our democracy. Others still see this as turnabout being fair play as the Biden Team spied on Trump during his transition and said his election was fake and tried to overturn the 2016 election with the courts, and turnabout is fair play.

The truth is that it’s none of these and all because if you press them, most will cycle through these claims as you try to apply facts or logic to it, and eventually they will always seem to just accuse you of hate. Hate for Trump, hate for them, hate for America itself.

So… what is going on.

Most of you know, or at least suspect, that this has become a cult. I invite you to go to cultresearch.org, link below, and take a look at the characteristics of a cult and decide for yourself as I am not going to try to convince you that Trumpism is a cult. Quite the contrary. Trumpism isn’t A cult, it’s multiple cults that have congealed into one figurehead. This is important to understand if we are going to go forward and hopefully avoid what some are already calling the Cold Civil War.

Cult 1: The first and most obvious of the cults that Trump has tapped into is of course the America First Cult. I won’t call these people Nazis, though they deserve the name because they predate the German Nazi party. Most of you know America First was a KKK slogan, but that’s not looking at the whole picture. The Klan might have made that slogan popular, but they did not create the sentiment. They merely tapped into a cultural zeitgeist of the time, one that has been in America since long before its founding, that saw all outside cultural influence, even from other European settlers and colonists, as at best undesirable, and worst evil. Bear in mind, this isn’t racism, it certainly includes racism, but it is not racism. A person who is of non-European descent who adopts the culture these people see as correct are welcomed into the in-group. This is how you can have prominent Black Americans and People of Color in said group. They firmly believe that outside of the borders of the United States of America do live a lesser people. What’s more, while they can and often do sympathize with the plight of these people, they have a deep ingrained understanding that if these people simply did things the correct way, the American way, that their lives would be better.

These people aren’t so much racists, as culturalists. These are also not American Exceptionalism. While they do believe America and her culture is the pinnacle of all human civilization, they firmly believe that the rest of the world is not worth their time, money, or effort. All American resources should be used to help “Real Americans”. Everything else is a waste of time.

Cult 2: The next group seems like more than one, and while they definitely have slightly different ways of interpreting things, they are all fundamentally the same multi-headed beast, Fundamentalist, Evangelical, Protestant, Puritanism. Today we would call them the “Christian Right”, although they are neither. Please don’t misunderstand me, this isn’t an attack on all Christians, most Christians, or even Christians in general, but rather a cult with-in the highest echelons of Modern American Christianity in which the average Christian finds themselves in to one degree or another. Individual Christians I have no issue with. I have found very few even amongst the most brainwashed by this cult who doesn’t try to do the right thing by not only themselves but others including individuals in groups they as a whole dislike. They are the ones most likely to have a favorite “One of the Good Ones”, though all of the people I will be talking about have those people. I’ve firsthand witnessed these individual Christians help out every single group their leaders tell them it’s ok to look down upon; from other races, to unwed mothers, to drug victims, to the LGBTQA+ individuals, and more. If it wasn’t for their sick and corrupt cult leadership these people wouldn’t be an issue whatsoever. That leadership has existed again since before the foundation of the US itself. They gave us the pilgrims, the witch trials, excused slavery of the African Diaspora, gave us segregation and Jim Crow, the failure of the AIDS response, and more. Unlike Cult 1, it’s not a culture that matters, it’s a sort of twisted and narrow interruption not of the words and works of the person they think is the Son of God, but the words and works of Saul of Tarsus a.k.a. Paul. For those of you unaware and who do not care due to having your own faith belief, or who have been too harmed by the abuse of these people, the actual words of “Christ” are not only fairly progressive for their time, they still are for today. Feeding everyone, medical help for everyone, allowing others of other faiths to go unmolested, charity, not live, and let live but actively working to make anyone and everyone’s life better. Conversion, if it was to be done, should be done by emulation of ideas and be personal. A walk the walk and see who follows kind of thing.

If you’ve never heard of this “Christ” don’t worry, most of the people who fall into this group never have either.

That’s thanks to Paul. Paul was an old school Pharisees. They believed in an interpretation of The Law as being if God said don’t make a length of rope more than 9 inches long, then you should never have a length of rope more than 7 inches long just to be on the safe side. The above is of course a completely made-up example, but it’s meant to illustrate the thought process of this cult. Most of Paul’s work was undoing the chaos of the early church which was becoming more and more unruly. The personal walk was replaced by a group who informed you of what you needed to do to avoid hell at any costs, and how to save others from hell. As such the members of this cult see everything that is going on at any time as a clear indication that Satan is winning, and all is lost if “we can’t make people behave”.

Cult 3: Let’s call these people the Divinely Blooded. These are your racists in the purest sense of the word. To them, all of them, the accident of your birth is the greatest accomplishment you will ever achieve. They of course don’t see it this way, but when you consider that no accomplishment from someone not born of the divine blood can ever make that person as worthy as they are, you have to face the fact that no accomplishment of theirs can either. You are either born right, or you are not. They literally peaked in accomplishment when they crowned. You may be wondering, if these people are so great, why do so many of them seem to be so laughable. For them the answer is simple. The very fact that inferiors are allowed to compete at all, means they would fail in the face of their divine blood, and since they do not, they must be cheating somehow. You hear this any time they speak of things like forced diversity, affirmative action, or political correctness. This cult to predates the founding of the US. They are the entire reason for the existence of the African Diasporas as well as the slaughter of native peoples not just in the US, but all over the world. They speak of things like Blood and Soil, and the Glory of their “People”. Some might think this means White Europeans. I assure you it does not. The Polish, the Irish, the French, the Cornish, the Scots, the Italians, the Greeks, all of these groups have been the enemy of these people in the past and will be again. The reason is shockingly simple both for the current inclusion and the eventual return to the ‘other’ list. Blood Purity. When only Divine Blood matters, any non-pure group is a mongrel, and all mongrels are the enemy. Any person of European descent who thinks they are part of this group is fooling themselves. Only the Nobility, not the peasantry, have this divine blood.

Cult 4: This is our first more modern cult on the list, the cult of Adam Smith, Father of Capitalism. To be fair, if Adam were alive today, he would probably not like his adherence that much. That doesn’t matter. The cult, henceforth simply referred to as the cult of capitalism, is the belief that the market empowers us, the market will save us. Any chains upon the market mean the market can’t do its job, and all ills in the world are because we haven’t listened to the market. All hail the market. To call these people Capitalists misses the point of Capitalism. In theory, like a lot of economic models, capitalism works. To do so however it must be weighted on the side of the people, not power. It, after all, was meant to give that power to the common man. The problem being of course that when one common man gets more of that power than his fellow man, he or she, or they become the new power. A power, that just like the powers of old, doesn’t want to share that power. Now comes in the myth of the invisible hand of the market. That mythical thing was supposed to self-regulate said market in such a way that any abuse of said power would be slapped down by the people. It was supposed to be the democratization of the economy. Beforehand the economy was a game only the nation-states could play. The problem is that without regulation a single family, with enough time, could become more powerful than any nation-state. That was something Mr. Smith was aware of as he knew of the East India Company. To him the problem with the East India Company was that it was backed by the state, meaning no one else was allowed to play in that market. Now, of course, no company in the US has such a backing… in theory. Too bad he didn’t see coming the commoditization of what he would have considered basic needs. Adherences to this cult are quick to defend the 1%, quick to condemn any attack upon them, quick to advocate for a completely unregulated market, and more. TO them, anyone can make it with enough hard work if the government would just get out of the way.

This is of course as much of a fantasy as any other on this list and the inability to question these ideas… well, you know.

Cult 5: Finally, we arrive at the cult that may be single-handedly the biggest problem in the US today. It has the single greatest number of audiences, the furthest reach, and has done the most damage to our democracy, The Cult of McCarthyism. Its most basic tenant can be summed up in one phrase “Anything left of my position is Communism.” Socialism is left of conservatism, so it is communism. Progressivism is left of Conservatism, so it is communism. Gay marriage, equal rights, free college, healthcare, infrastructure advancement, reduction of military spending, different faiths, you name it, it’s a Communist plot to over though the movement. The youngest of the Cults, it also has the widest reach because not one, but 3 entire generations grew up with this being the absolute truth. Depending on level of indoctrination you can’t even mention programs we have now or used to have without having the Communist label thrown at you. If you try to defend your passion in any way, then the commies have just brainwashed you. They fight the ideas of Cultural Marxism, Liberal Brainwashing, and “The Culture War” with every breath they have. These people don’t care what culture you are, if you’re gay, straight, trans, black, white, foreign or US-born, Jew, Gentile, Pagan, Atheist, Deist, even Muslim, so long as you support America and fight Marxism in all its forms. They are what we think of when we say “American Exceptionalism” they are the people who want to America up the rest of the world, for the US to be the World Police.

Here’s the thing, these people? They don’t like each other. None of them do. Sure, there is some overlap, a person can belong to more than one of these, a few might be part of all 5. But if you call a McCarthyite a racist, you will confuse the hell out of them. A member of the Fundamentalist will be quick to point out all their X friends. The Divine Blooded will be quick to point out they just want a meritocracy without government interference, though most will admit to being bigots. And the American first crowd? They are all for people coming here the right way and assimilating, therefore they can’t be bigots. Only one out of these 5 groups is a proud racist, though all are bigots to one degree or another of course. Each and every one of them does look down upon the other to some degree.

Yet here’s the thing.

Each of them has been waiting, begging for one thing and one thing only. A strong man leader who embodies their ideas to come forward and take control and fix this country before it’s too late.

Enter Donald Trump.

5. He’s anti-communism in everything he does. Anti-Cultural Marxism in all its forms such as feminism and political correctness, and he says what he means no matter how many liberal feelings get hurt.

3. He’s a Capitalist who believes in the free market and has proven himself worthy of power by remaking himself into a billionaire over 7 times.

4. He’s white and a white supremacist and he’s powerful.

2. He claims to be Christian, and not only do the leaders say he is, but many also say he was sent by God to stop this heedless descent of America into hell.

1. His slogan has all been America First from day one.

To all 5 of these groups he is a savor, he checks all their boxes. These people, all 5 groups, they know deep down, yes even the divine blooded, that everyone in their heart of hearts, thinks as they do. All of us know the truth, all of us. The only reason we oppose them in any way is we are evil. The only reason some of their neighbors are silent is they are scared of those who are evil. The concept that when faced with a savor of all that is good and right in the world that nearly 80 million Americans voted for Sleepy Joe Biden means there must be massive amounts of voter fraud. Either that? Or so many of their fellow Americans have been brainwashed that the only way to save them and American Democracy might be to resort to violence. None of these 5 groups are capable of entertaining the idea that they are wrong. All evidence that they are wrong is part of a deception by ‘the opposition’ to lead themselves astray.

That is why 74 million of our friends and family, the people we work with and live next to, chose to vote for someone the rest of us understood was a complete fraud.

So, what do we do?

First and foremost, though, stop selling out the people who these groups disenfranchise to appease them. From one end to the other, at their heart, these people consider those who are not part of their “in-group” as lesser. They do this with no evidence and despite the fact that each and every one of them can be cast out of their “in-group” at any time for not being ‘good enough’ to be in the group. All of them are aware of this, it’s why they work so hard to stay within what is acceptable by that group.

How you handle this is up to you, but remember, your X friend can see you and can see how you treat someone who hates them.

Side note, for those of you wondering why I didn’t mention The Patriarchy, rest assured I will, I just have a lot more to say on that that goes well beyond Donald J Trump.

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