THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CULT

Indoctrination, isolation, paranoia and belief in the absurd are the defining traits of today's political Left

Not a day goes by when I’m not told by some or another Leftist that, because I support President Trump and the Make America Great Again movement, I must be a member of some sort of cult. I, on the other hand, am equally convinced that it is they who have been brainwashed and are in the thrall of a mindless cult.

Given that people in a cult aren’t aware of the fact that they are mindless followers of an absurd doctrine, I was wondering if there was some objective way to know which one of us is right?

My first question would be, just where and how would we have been indoctrinated into a cult? After all, cults require extended periods of isolation from reality during which people claiming omniscience and who, during that time at least, are, in fact, all-powerful, to propagandize incessantly to the powerless.

For virtually every American, there is only one period of time that even remotely resembles this environment: it’s the twelve-plus years that start when the small child is a blank slate and continues on unabated through well into what had once been known as “adulthood” in the American “education” system.

It is during those years that the child — wholly isolated from the real world — is lectured to incessantly by teachers and professors who claim to be in sole possession of “The Truth” and who have (and use) their great powers to reward and punish their young wards based entirely on their adherence to the orthodoxies of The Cult.

Unsurprising, then, is that amongst those most likely to vote Democrat and to be members of the cult of Wokeism are those still in school or those who have only recently first entered the real world and have not yet had the chance to fully test reality against the teachings of their cult masters.

As one would expect, then, there is a near-perfect correlation between the number of years one is removed from the indoctrination process and the rejection of the orthodoxies of that cult, with the “youth vote” overwhelmingly supporting the Leftist agenda and the Democrats then steadily losing support amonst every age group as they are further removed from the absurd teachings of the cult.

In fact, while we all know scores of people (including myself) who left the indoctrination centers as members of the Democrat party cult who, as they gained wisdom and experience, came to be supporters of the political right; it is almost unheard of for someone to leave school as a Republican and then, as they tested the realities of the grown-up world against the propaganda of the Leftist cult, moved to the political Left.

The reality is that the vast majority of children enter the real world indoctrinated into the Leftist cult and then either grow up to become Republicans or they never grow up and remain Democrats their entire lives.

This fact is equally proved in the inverse. Just as the more time one spends in the real world, the more likely they are to reject the orthodoxies of the Democratic Party cult, the more time they spend isolated from the real world, the more likely they are to not only remain mindless adherents to the Leftist orthodoxies but to then become its most fervent advocates.

Unsurprising, then, is that those who choose to enter the real world shortly after high school are amongst the most likely to reject the absurdities of Leftism while those who decide to stay in the indoctrination centers through college, grad school, post-graduate school and ultimately forever as teachers and professors, grow ever more likely to forever embrace the same beliefs they’ve held, unquestioned, since they were five-years-old.

While it is obvious, then, just how and when Democrats are indoctrinated into their cult, just how and when I could have been indoctrinated into mine remains a total mystery. After all, since I didn’t become a member of the “Cult of Republicanism” until I was well into my forties, there was no such intense period of isolation from reality during which I could have been brainwashed.

Nor was I ever isolated from alternative points-of-view. Far from it. As a New York City-born Jew in the entertainment industry, I was privy to the Democrats’ arguments whether I was visiting with old New York friends, spending time with my Jewish family, locked for long hours in the writers’ room with my Hollywood colleagues or chatting with my L.A. neighbors.

As if that weren’t enough, we non-Leftists cannot watch a television show, see a movie, pick up a magazine or take in a Broadway show without being hit over the head by Leftist orthodoxies.

Telling is that, while these same Leftists have no qualms about voicing their beliefs, they are wholly uninterested in hearing any other point-of-view. In fact, since isolation from reality is essential to the cult, they demand that all other points-of-view be either silenced or cut out of their lives completely.

A defining trait of a cult is that nothing in the cult member’s life is more important than the cult. Thus, it is not only unsurprising but wholly to be expected that the Democrat will stop talking to her parents, disown her children, ghost her best friend, betray her neighbor and cancel her colleagues if it is ever discovered that they said or did anything that is in opposition to the orthodoxies of the cult.

This, then, explains yet another trait common to all cultists, including the members of the Democrat Party cult and that is paranoia. To those in a cult, anyone who in any way questions the orthodoxies of their doctrine are not and cannot be good, decent, smart and loving people with whom they just happen to disagree. Anyone who isn’t in the cult is seen as nothing short of an existential threat.

It is unsurprising, then — and, in fact, it is only to be expected — that anyone who for any reason questions the orthoxies of Wokeism is, as proved by nothing other than their refusal to join the cult, a “Nazi,” a “fascist” or “Adolf Hitler” himself.

The charges are absurd, of course, but embracing patent absurdities is still one more defining trait of a cult. While people may disagree with some of the things I believe — such as that life begins at conception — there is nothing I believe that is patently absurd.

Conversely, believing that men can have babies and that small boys can menstruate is as counter to reality as was the Heaven’s Gate cultists believing that there was a spaceship hiding behind the Hale-Bopp comet that was sent to take them to paradise.

Indoctrination, isolation, paranoia and absurd doctrines are the hallmarks of a cult. They are the defining traits of those who vote Democrat today.