Cult of Personality

A Jewish Perspective On The Dangerous Charisma Of Power

Rabbi David Wolpe | Posted 07.12.2011

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Rabbi David Wolpe

What is the Jewish attitude towards rulers? The person before you may seem a god. He is a person, with the same stubborn flaws that afflict us all, if anything, they may be magnified by power.

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Matt Osborne | Posted 05.25.2011

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Matt Osborne

Democracy Corps did a series of focus-groups with movement conservatives in Georgia and found them happily living in their own special reality. the conservative movement has become a cult.

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Republicans Demand Equal Access to Schoolchildren

Don Parker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Brainwashing, Mitch McConnell, Michele Bachmann, Cult of Personality, John Boehner, Hypnosis, President Barack Obama, America's Schoolchildren, Indoctrination, Republicans, Manchurian Candidate, Slit Wrists, Politics News
Don Parker

Amid the uproar over President Obama's grand scheme to use subliminal brainwashing to indoctrinate America's schoolchildren into his cult of personality, Republicans today demanded equal access to young minds so they could counterbalance the president's dangerous message.

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Caroline Kennedy Hires Joe Lieberman "Fixer" Josh Isay

Jane Hamsher | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jane Hamsher

Kennedy's first move was to pick up the phone and start working the elites, then hire a political fixer whose specialty is deceiving voters.

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Why We Vote For The Happiest Cavemen

Rick Foster | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rick Foster

Our attraction to certain personal characteristics is integral to how we evolved as humans. How do we leap from prehistoric clan success to modern day presidential politics?

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Jason Linkins

Krugman Claims Obama Supporters Are Cult-Like

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hillary Clinton, Paul Krugman, Barack Obama, Krugman Cult of Personality, Paul Krugman Barack Obama, Cult of Personality, Politics News

A strong case can be made that Clinton's been roughly treated by the press. The case that cannot be made is that the Obama campaign is culpable for this treatment.

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