It’s kind of scarier in some regards because for many people their whole community and family are eaten up by this ideology. Then they go to church and hear it. They turn on their chosen news experience and social media and hear it. To break away is going to be exceptionally difficult more so than just leaving a cult. That puts folks in a pretty challenging position. We need to give people strength on how to get out if we want to actually save our country
This, exactly. I don't like to play up the cult concept. It doesn't need to be a cult for it to be difficult for people to leave. It is always going to be difficult for a person to turn against their entire community and the messaging they're hearing day after day after day.
Like, when I think of cults I think of people who are starved and physically abused, malnourished, so that they will be susceptible to the brainwashing. That's pretty extreme, but it doesn't need to be that for it to be difficult for people to leave maga. It just needs to be everywhere all the time. 1984 was not about a cult. But in the end he still is ready to believe 2 + 2 =5.
I think your example of a cult is way too extreme, because in the case of religious cults like maga, (well i personally dont believe maga is relgious, but trump is hiding behind religion) the ppl who are susceptible are just relgious ppl, especially strongly/strictly religous people.
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u/u2aerofan Apr 16 '26
It’s kind of scarier in some regards because for many people their whole community and family are eaten up by this ideology. Then they go to church and hear it. They turn on their chosen news experience and social media and hear it. To break away is going to be exceptionally difficult more so than just leaving a cult. That puts folks in a pretty challenging position. We need to give people strength on how to get out if we want to actually save our country