Maybe they could join Adidam.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adi_Da

The media rats finally realized what happened last november.

I think they are bringing in new members actually...the previously disenfranchised militant right wing extremists.

I'm not sure what "mind-altering practices" they engage in. Then again, their minds seem "altered" to begin with.

"As for the 'cult' comment, Kevin Drum twists the knife: '[T]oday's GOP does seem to check most of the boxes in the International Cultic Studies Association's 'Characteristics Associated with Cultic Groups'. Except for this one: 'The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members'. That doesn't seem to be much of a priority for them these days."

OK, then they're a cloistered cult.

Another difference is that no cults are part of a binary option. The Republican strategy is to hope people become disallusioned with government (read: Dem) attempts to solve problems. Unless a solutions-based third party emerges, people will have no other serious option. I suspect that a lot of the people who are polling as leaving the Republicans to become independent are Joe the Plumber/teabagger/Limbaugh types. These are the true Puritans of our age.

The GOP arms itself with indefensible stupidity, it's the Branch Davidian of political sects and the fire has already started.

What Republicans remind me most of are those children who were convinced they had been sexually molested in the McMartin Preschool saga of the 1980s. Their entire reality had been shaped by prosecutorial "suggestions" to the point that their own dreams became living nightmares. Once the case collapsed from its own insanity nearly ten years later, the children - teens now - reacted as if their reality had been completely invalidated in the face of what they "knew" to be true.

The Republican base has been getting a similar message for 40 years now. They've been abused by "liberals", "Democrats", "secular humanists", "race hustlers", et al. This Total Explanation is what has led to cult-like intransigence in the face of contradictory reality. They understand the Truth because the message has been seared into their brains through repetitive messaging.

The good news is that cults eventually change or die. The bad news is that this cult shows no signs of waking up from its hypnosis. If anything, this sense of being misunderstood and mocked makes their fervor even hotter.

Bill Schneider can point to the current state of the republican party with derision all he wants but that won't take away is participation in how it became the way it is.

For years people like Schneider fed on the republican strategy of polarizing US politics. People like Schneider encouraged, even urged, the unholy alliance of church and state as part of the republican platform.

Now he stands aside of the monster that he helped create, as if the rest of the country doesn't see his punditry as active participation in playing Frankenstein.

He is one of those who brought the republican party to the pathetic condition that it is in. He should man-up about it, or STFU.

...that won't take away his participation.

Max Weinrich said "a religion is a cult with an army".
Given the sort of attempts by Christian Evangelicals to turn the US Military into a missionary force, we'd best keep an eye on these bastards..
And Jcricket, it is interesting to note how the once hyperpartisan Mr. Schnieder is now supposed to be an impartial pundit. He was one of many reasons I abandoned CNN for political coverage.

If Schneider is calling the GOP a cult, you can probably bet your sweep bippie that the GOP has officially devolved into a hate group. They should show up on the SPLC's website as such within the next 6 months---if not sooner....

Cheney Says He Favors Limbaugh Over Powell as Model Republican
Bloomberg

Drug addicted, draft-dodging college dropout on probation vs. decorated military veteran MBA Army general and Bush cabinet member... what's not to like? Oh, wait. Rush is white and rich, isn't he.

The GOP is in the hands of reality averse loons. You can change reality, but if that's your goal, you can't start with delusions. The GOP is unwilling to accept how deeply delusional the party has become, and keeps insisting that the rest of the world has to accept their frankly insane interpretation(s) of the world.

But why give them free advice, they should spend the next forty years figuring this out for themselves.

:-)

Melior:

Limbaugh is an asshole, and proud of it. That's why he's the preferred model Republican. It's the only thing he has in his favor.

If GOP Ground Zero is in Orange County, California (O.C.), does that make Republicans believers in the OCcult?

Thank you, thank you very much. Have a good night. And don't forget to try the veal, it's delicious.

Steve... Thanks for all your work here.

Calling the GOP a cult is an insult to these guys. And these guys.

I seem to recall the whole world thinking that Karl Rove was some sort of genius who put together the modern Republican Party. All he managed to build was an old jalopy that is now broke down on the side of the road.

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A cult without a sex goddess is no fun at all. It's just a buncha Moms.

OMG!!!

LAST-MINUTE MOTHER'S DAY GIFTS!
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Heh - as many have noted, the ReRushlickins are a cult with two tribes wedded together because neither could have gotten winning votes alone. It was a shotgun marriage of the plutocrats - "old men sitting around the country club puffing cigars, sipping brandy" as the Huckster noted in a moment of bean-spilling candor - and the religious/Southern/NASCAR types in which the former promised the latter to indulge the latter's prejudices if the latter would vote (often unwittingly) against their own economic self-interest. (You know the drill.) Well the marriage is unraveling like Bristol and Levi's relationship.

BTW the Republicult is getting really riled up over the Wanda Sykes jokes about Rush (highjacker, oxycontin, kidney failure) and how Obama looks to be laughing at her (see Youtube links from Dr**** and Rightie blogs.) I realize its typical to laugh at comedians and not micromanage the cherry-picking of funny v. "inappropriate" humor, but righties are welling up to make a big stink. It will make the outrage over Obama's use of Dijon mustard, look like a tempest in a tea pot.

I'm not sure what "mind-altering practices" they engage in.

Fox "news".

GOP

I sell the things you need to be
I’m the smiling face on your t.v.
I’m the cult of personality...

I exploit you still you love me
I tell you one and one makes three
I’m the cult of personality...

You gave me fortune
You gave me fame
You gave me power in your god’s name
I’m every person you need to be
I’m the cult of personality - Living Colour

Waco Texas is just a 30 minute leisurely drive down the road from Crawford Texas. 24.3 miles to be exact.

A cult has to have a charismatic leader like Barack Obama.

Luther, one of our ass-holiest trolls IIRC:
Yes, a charismatic leader. But there's a difference between wretched divisive bombastic demagogues like *your* leader Rush, and a cool, reasonable, negotiating man like Obama who is widely admired by reasonable, well-intentioned people.

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