Thread by @tomiahonen

Thread 6: Brainwashing by Bannon

I mean literally brainwashing. Please see psychological and sociological theories. I mean literally building a cult - that CANNOT FIND THE TRUTH

It is like the Branch Davidians (mass suicide)

Steve Bannon built this cult for Trump

I mean literally brainwashing. MOST OF YOU have relatives or friends who are inside the cult. They cannot be reasoned with. They cannot find the truth. They believe in their brainwashing.

PERFECTLY SANE even intelligent people can be brainwashed. It is not 'stupidity'

Yes MANY of the Trump #cult45 are gullible and some are mentally simple, many are lowly educated. BUT plenty of smart, educated, successful people have fallen into the cult - and like any cult - they cannot get out.

They cannot find the truth.

Steve Bannon, with Mercer money, and Putin's KGB brainwashing experts in Europe, built the best brainwashing machine ever designed, called Cambridge Analytica in 2016. They stole user info, and then used Facebook as the broadcast platform to poison nearly half of Americans

Most of the GOP voters were fed brainwashing lies with Steve Bannon / Cambridge Analytica developed activating phrases like Drain The Swap and Deep State. Yes. These were DESIGNED (with the help of KGB brainwashing experts) to poison Republican voters. Anyone who uses those..

Anyone who tells you that Trump is (or was successfully) draining the swamp - is a victim of Cambridge Analytica. And anyone who says there is a Deep State now somehow stealing this election - they are Cambridge Analytica vicims of brainwashing. We ALL know people who are

There has NEVER been a more powerful mass media as social media - because of the PEER confirmation effect (as I said first in the world, in my 4th book, Communities Dominate Brands, years before Twitter even existed)

So the INTENSITY of the cult to Trump is unpredecented.

BTW my British Tweeps recognize this same Bannon Cambridge Analytica f*cked up Brexit vote - yes you can thank Bannon for that too (and Putin of course).

What this means - is that differing from ANY PREVIOUS political 'correction' like DEMs after Walter Mondale's loss in 1984

Because of the social media 'echo chamber' effect, this cult of maga nutters is FAR MORE ISOLATED from reality than any other past political movement. As we see, when Fox tries cautiously to introduce reality - the cult retreats into Qanon fringes escaping away from reality

Returning to my cancer analogy. If the GOP had performed the operation to remove the Tea Party Sarah Palin nutwing fringe, it could have taken 10% of their power away, but HEALED the party for a return inside a decade.

Now HALF of the party is sick - and far more intensely so