Thread by @CultExpert

Autocracy Inc. Is a criminal network. I agreed with everything but the huge missing piece is my area of expertise: authoritarian cults that use brainwashing and mind control through the media, especially social media. Educating everyone about the Influence Continuum / BITE Model

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Is essential. Applying and expanding anti-trafficking law to codify brainwashing into legal systems around the world is important step. Leigh misses how cult leaders use religion and spirituality to program people with anti-democratic ideologies- using fear and hate to motivate

And control. Teaching people how to effectively interact with their radicalized family and friends is the solution. Not trying to lecture them with facts to “win” them over. That almost always propels them deeper into the rabbit hole. Listening to former cult members share their

Stories and destigmatizing the fact that millions of people worldwide have been recruited and indoctrinated into ideologies where conscience, integrity and compassion are suppressed. #igotout is a movement of survivors of many forms of undue influence. Undue influence can co-opt

Intelligent, educated people. It happened to me in the 1970s. I became a Moonie and was brainwashed to believe democracy was Satanic, the Holocaust was justified, and a divine theocracy was God’s plan. All who did not follow the rules would “have their physical bodies taken away

And sent to the spirit world where they could be restored later.” Sun Myung Moon told a group of us leaders this in private. Moonies were at #January6thInsurrection . Without a massive psychoeducational effort worldwide, Autocracy Inc. will rule through power. And psychological

Warfare online and in controlled corporate media (that cares only for power and money and not values and integrity). Children and family members have the potential access to ethically influence their powerful, wealthy parents. Hope is essential. So is wise, complex systems

Processes and strategy. Resources (people, creativity, financial resources) are needed to implement a multi year project. For the moment, (the November midterms), I have voted straight Democratic. I urge everyone to do the same. Indeed, we need to dig America out of this

Hyper polarized situation. Understanding social psychology principles of influence will be essential - not just media literacy and critical thinking. The media has largely censored me and other mental health experts like @BandyXLee1. Why? Who is behind the decisions to prevent

us from sharing our decades of work? Why was my Simon & Schuster book not widely read and promoted? I imagine I was outing too many wealthy powerful authoritarian cults that comprise The Cult of Trump. The book got everything right. I asked to do an updated edition but there

Apparently isn’t “interest.” Another explanation was there are many other books on Trump. However, my book is about the psychology and methods of mind control. Please listen to it or read it. If you are short on cash take it out from your library. Educate yourself and everyone

You can. Truth will help set us all free. And by truth I mean evolving understanding based on facts, not wishful thinking, or trying to ignore what is happening in the US and all over the world. Let us all stand up and take noble action. Carry yourself with love and

Compassion. Feel sorry for people who have been radicalized (on the left and the right). Open your minds to learning. Put certainty aside and be willing to consider changing your mind. Please watch my TEDx talk and reality-test.