You can't make this stuff up.

But now Trump's fully embraced the alt-right conspiracy theorist foundation on which he's built a large part of his campaign.

Everything is now a "conspiracy" against him:

    The debates – rigged.

    The video that was leaked – part of the media's conspiracy to help Clinton.

    The women accusing him of sexual harassment/assault – tools being used by pro-Clinton forces

to  derail his campaign.

    The polls – rigged to show Clinton winning.

    The election – rigged if Clinton wins.

    The GOP – working against him.

    The media – all bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton to help elect her.

    Economic numbers – all faked by President Obama.

    His support among women being abysmal – a lie told by the media, he's doing great with women.

    National security experts saying Russia is behind the hacking of the DNC and some voting databases – probably lies made up by the media and Trump doubts anything was hacked at all.

    No evidence of the "thousands and thousands" of Muslims he claims to have seen   celebrating in New Jersey on 9/11 – the media has the evidence, but won't release the footage because of political correctness.

    The GOP primary – rigged… until he won, then it wasn't.

    Hillary Clinton's health – very poor, her doctors are apparently lying.

    The FBI – also working for Clinton, she should be in jail.

We're watching a presidential candidate who's essentially a mix of alt-right conspiracy sites like Breitbart, Drudge and InfoWars.

Donald Trump is a candidate who's going out and telling voters he and he alone can solve all their problems - which is basically the go-to line for every leader of any cult.

Here are a few signs of a cult:

    Submission: Complete, almost unquestioned trust in leadership.

    Persecution complex: Us against them mentality.

    Control: Manipulate members actions and thinking through repetitive indoctrination.

    Indoctrination: Teachings of the group are repeated and drilled into members.

    Salvation: The belief that what your hopes and dreams can only be accomplished by following this     group.

    Cognitive dissonance: Avoidance of critical thinking, maintaining illogical or impossible beliefs, while denying any facts that contradict your beliefs.

    Sunning: Those who are not like us are the enemy.

All of that (plus racism, bigotry, fear-mongering, and more) is exactly what Trump has done throughout his campaign.

This is not a presidential campaign, this is the Cult of Donald Trump.

These are people who've turned their backs on their political party, their country, their faith and even their common decency (if they had any to begin with) to bow down and worship at the altar of Donald J. Trump.

I used to wonder how in the world Adolf Hitler was able to gain power, but I understand now. While I'm not comparing the two men (yes, Trump is bad, but there's only one Hitler), what we're seeing now is how authoritarian dictators rise to power - on the backs, hate and irrational fear of the ignorant and easily deceived.

Source: RawStory.com

Date Posted: Monday, October 17th, 2016 , Total Page Views: 1412