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In the 1980s, people who study cults say there were about 3,000 cults of one kind or another in the U.S., with a total membership of up to 1 million. These included cults such as the "Moonies," and the Jonestown congregation (and we know how that ended).

Now, we are faced with a staggering 70 million deranged cult members who vote and sacrifice themselves, even go to their deaths or to jail, for the maniacal street preacher Trump. These people have yet to be systematically studied, and at this point there is no time to study them.

There is only time to mobilize better than them, and deprive their psychopathic - I mean this quite literally, he meets all the needed DSMN-5 criteria - immoral and lawless 'leader.'

We can, and I think we should study these cultists as best we can later - even though they are usually paranoid, averse to science and reasoning, and so may balk at being part of a study.

For now, we have to focus on beating them at the ballot box, because we can't count on judges like Eileen Cannon, or business world schmucks like Jamie Diamond who would sell his democracy down the river for a better tax rate - to do what needs to be done.

Trump is a monster, and he surrounds himself with monsters, and he brings the worst out in them, and he will f&*$%#k our country up for a generation if not forever, unless we can keep his greedy, incompetent, malicious bum out of the White House for good.

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