• Kalkaline
    link
    fedilink
    282 months ago

    I don’t have much sympathy or effort left for these people. They lived through the 90s and the golden age of internet scams, pop-ups, viruses/malware, they saw all the mega church pastors hit with lawsuits for scamming their followers, if they can’t learn from that, there’s not much else I can do.

    • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)
      link
      fedilink
      English
      202 months ago

      The thing you have to remember about a cult is that nobody seeks them out, and nobody knows they are in a cult until it is to late. These are people that got caught up in something they saw someplace online likely, and once they started down the rabbit hole it was to late to go back. And the like most all cults, Trump actively reinforces that everyone outside of the cult is a danger to those inside the cult, and that leaving is to dangerous to themselves, loved ones, America. And from the outside it’s easy to see they are being fed lies non-stop and nothing Trump says is true, but inside the cult bubble the lies and conspiracies are reinforced constantly, and the “threat” is always increasing.

      … if they can’t learn from that, there’s not much else I can do.

      Correct, it’s going to take a mass therapist program to help bring these people back to reality because they have been conditioned against looking outside the cult for almost 9 years now. Trump isn’t going to go away and they just deprogram overnight, this is going to be a long term issue for the US going forward.