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I am going to post my uncensored observations and opinions, from a pm I sent last night.
This NOT an attack on Obama, and is not an attack on all Obama supporters. This what I see in the Obama movement, and what I think holds his candidacy back, if anything, and puts us in a very weak position going into the general. I would say the same thing about what I am seeing regardless of what the cause was and whether or not I agreed with that cause.
They are crossing another threshold into madness tonight
A new threshold has been crossed tonight. An Obama supporter is being attacked, and for what? For having insufficiently strong beliefs in the personality of Obama and the cause of promoting that personality as the only answer, the only solution? And being attacked with the same venom and bile as they would be had they aggressively opposed Obama - ridicule, character assassination, abusive language, insults. Promoting and idealizing this personality is to be seen as synonymous with everything from smiting the evil ones to saving the country, and I suppose saving our very souls, as well. Anyone expressing any heresy to this belief, and the belief in the power of this belief, is to be ostracized and targeted, ridiculed and purged from the circle if possible. It is much easier and more accepted to express doubts about one's faith in the context of the most rigid, fundamentalist and conservative church then it is to express doubts about the Obama movement here.
This is a religious revival movement. It has all of the features of a religious movement, and the adherents are behaving and speaking in the same intolerant and self-righteous way that true believers do in any movement of this kind. Since this is a religious movement that people were not born into, it is by definition a cult. The language being used, directing people to the "word" - be it telling people to "go read the book" or "go read the website" and the inability of the followers to put it into their own words, are also closely parallel what commonly happens in a religious movement.
You accurately identified and described this very early, ClericJohnPreston. I don't think there is any stopping it, and I think the Obama movement will seize control of the party and purge all heretics. There will be no way for many of us to work within this movement, because we will not in good conscience be able to knuckle under to a group that tolerates no doubt, no wavering, that demands absolute belief without variation or exception, and that launches into pack behavior against any whom are seen as outsiders and attacks them.
The list of outsiders grows longer and longer, and as of tonight includes any and all failing to express the proper reverence and adulation. This thread is the harbinger of worse to come, and now having crossed this threshold - where even believers will be tested on their beliefs - I think there is no turning back. Obama believers now think that any turning back from this path is tantamount to surrendering to evil and losing their souls.
Clinton supporters have mostly been run off - it is exhausting trying to speak in this environment even for those of us who are not Clinton supporters, and one gets worn down and depressed after a while fending off the same insults and attacks again and again. It also is probably not psychologically very healthy, since spending too much time in an environment where up is down can wear away at a person's rationality no matter how strong they are, and the relentless pressure of the howling mob is difficult to resist.
Nothing less than groveling at the altar and begging forgiveness for one's sins - one's offenses against the admired one - will do, apparently, and all are suspect of carrying the seeds of dangerous thoughts and can then be attacked as war mongerers or racists or Republican agents, or God knows what else. I saw Clinton blamed for the rise in gas prices tonight, and also a post linking her to the Nazi party. Being a supporter of Obama is insufficient - HOW one is a supporter then comes into play, and the way one must be in order to be an accepted supporter is to adhere very strictly to the script. One must see no wrong in the favored one, or even hint that one finds any faults with him, and one must also agree with the mob as to exactly who the enemies are, and how these enemies are to be detected, and one must also agree and follow through on how we properly scourge and stone the heretics - the right incantations must be used.
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