Political Activist | Social Justice Advocate
Political Activist | Social Justice Advocate
Is MAGA a political movement, or something closer to a cult? Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton spent his career studying thought control. In his 1961 book Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism, he identified eight hallmarks of totalist, cult-like groups.…
Context: The CNN in this experiment is the CNN of 2020. The network has changed considerably since, so these results describe that moment in time. In an era of deep political polarization, many of us wonder if “breaking the bubble”…
Criticize the Republican Party, and someone will almost always ask whether Democrats are any better. It’s a fair question. The honest answer is that it depends on what we’re measuring. Some establishment politicians cozy up to corporations, protect their donors,…