Cults follow a life-cycle of explosive growth. Then once they reach a certain threshold, they slow. And either they become something like Mormonism or Jehovah’s Witnesses, where they face slow growth/decline, close to equalibrium, or they begin collapsing in grotesquely spectacular fashion like Heaven’s Gate and Jone’s Town.
MAGA is falling into this latter category, in which the cult grows desperate as it loses members and clamps down harder, making ever-higher demands, making more members nope out, locking the cult into a vicious cycle of free-falling desperation. This is good.
What is not good is that the precedent set is Heaven’s Gate and Jone’s Town, both of which did something absolutely tragic and evil, and MAGA has great political power right now. They will absolutely be doing something truly and historically evil on the way out, and we need to be prepared.
Sad but this is likely what we’ll see. This is why you need to let them cut off their noses, so they can start turning on each other. It’s not what you want to see, but interfering only gives them new targets to try placing blame on.
Cults follow a life-cycle of explosive growth. Then once they reach a certain threshold, they slow. And either they become something like Mormonism or Jehovah’s Witnesses, where they face slow growth/decline, close to equalibrium, or they begin collapsing in grotesquely spectacular fashion like Heaven’s Gate and Jone’s Town.
MAGA is falling into this latter category, in which the cult grows desperate as it loses members and clamps down harder, making ever-higher demands, making more members nope out, locking the cult into a vicious cycle of free-falling desperation. This is good.
What is not good is that the precedent set is Heaven’s Gate and Jone’s Town, both of which did something absolutely tragic and evil, and MAGA has great political power right now. They will absolutely be doing something truly and historically evil on the way out, and we need to be prepared.
Sad but this is likely what we’ll see. This is why you need to let them cut off their noses, so they can start turning on each other. It’s not what you want to see, but interfering only gives them new targets to try placing blame on.