Thread by @FidelisToJusti1

1/ A common human experience is to be led astray by our heart. Sometimes, that occurs through fear with a suitor that knows just how to manipulate and exploit us. Indeed, it can happen to the best of us. We feel alone and on the outside. And then (Cont)
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2/ someone comes along who says only I understand your pain. They have charisma and attitude. And they seduce you, make promises and take every cent you got. When friends and family try to intervene, it seems as if they're judging you and act superior. So you dig in harder (Cont)

3/ even as you're finally entertaining doubts privately. Eventually, such people who were manipulated can turn vindictive. Mussolini found that out the hard way when he was hung upside down with his mistress. This, of course, is what happens to those recruited to join (Cont)

4/ cults. Cults often combine a false messiah or prophet with a depraved ideology used to justify crimes such as theft, rape and even murder and the art of seduction itself. Being seduced into a cult is actually not that different than being pulled into a toxic abusive (Cont)

5/ relationship. When it happens privately, the damage is more localized. When it occurs on a national scale, the damage can be genocidal oppression as occurred with Hitler and Stalin. Republicans have been exploiting the cultist appeal of depraved Christian nationalism (Cont)

6/ for decades. Under Reagan, it had a smiling face as he stole from the working class and murdered nuns in Central America. George W. Bush leveraged the cult to enrich GOP apparatchiks and plutocrats while lying America into war. Trump's minions, such as Roger Stone and (Cont)

7/ Steve Bannon has weaponized MAGA into an unholy alliance with what I call Fascism Inc. But as MAGA itself is imploding, many of their toxic mediocore empty suit mouthpieces such as Lindsey Graham are terrified of being executed by a vengeful mob as what occurred to (Cont)

8/ Mussolini or Ghadaffi. They're in too deep to save themselves. But we must with stubborn loving persistence not give up on our friends, family, and neighbors ensnared in the MAGA cult. Simply put, the only way to save America is to not give up on them. It's a tall order (Cont)

9/ I know. These folks can get defensive and cite all kinds of cultist falsehoods to justify their sense of belonging with an evil criminal underworld of traitors, child marriage enthusiasts, and white supremacists. America's "Greatest Generation" had D Day. This task is ours.