Posted on 11/20/2017 4:45:47 PM PST by EdnaMode
The death of cult leader and convicted murderer Charles Manson resurfaces tales from his twisted family’s killing spree after nearly four decades. Manson orchestrated the brutal deaths of actress Sharon Tate and six other innocent people in the 1960s according to historical reports, which leave many wondering how he convinced followers, made up of a former Sunday school teacher, a church choir singer and a one-time homecoming princess, into committing such brutal acts.
According to psychoanalyst Mark Smaller, past president of the American Psychoanalytic Association, part of Manson’s power lay in the type of language he used. Notably, Manson was able to speak in a way that engaged those who felt marginalized or alienated.
“A charismatic leader knows how to speak to people in a way that will emotionally engage those people,” Smaller told Newsweek.
Smaller is clear that he does not believe President Donald Trump is similar to the convicted killer, or that their followers have any shared beliefs or characteristics, but he did say we can look to the current president to see how language is used to form a bond with followers.
“Our current president speaks in an emotional or affective way to large numbers of people in our country who feel a kind of alienation or disconnection from the government,” he said. “They feel very responded to and become his political base.”
According to the psychoanalyst, cult followers like those in the Manson family are so seduced by feelings of acceptance and understanding that they accept their leaders’ ideologies regardless of how destructive or dangerous they may be.
“It’s not even the content of what that charismatic leader says,” he said. “He or she is able to do it in an emotional way.”
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It’s crazy that they continue to perpetuate those lies, despite all of the scientific evidence that they are literally killing a baby.
Didn’t Obama use language?
“I (heart) ObamaCare” bumper sticker, before the p.o.s. legislation was finished draft.
Have some more Xanax and wine Melissa
Funny, MSM manipulates the marginal democrats and turns them into terrorists and mass killers
I can think of MANY more ways the whole agenda of Obama was to connect with some folks who felt a “kind of alienation or disconnection from the government”. (it - the government was doing enough for them, wasn’t “taking care of them” enough.
LOL! I used lots of Obama/Biden signs at the range after the election
Same as the liberal media.
Because no other politician in the history of the world has ever done that!
Which issue was that and how many decades ago?
Obama has “followers”.
Trump has supporters.
Liberals are anti-science.
They think science is starting with their foregone conclusions and working backwards to figure out what theories they support.
Agree.
So did Ronald Reagan!
LOL, all other candidates just looked into their eyes and hypnotized them like this: The Jungle Book: 'Trust in Me!'
At least 40 plus years ago.
Nobody reads the $1 Newsweek except Melissa Matthews’ mommy.
Melissa sounds like she might be hittin’ da happy smoke. I’ll bet the b*tch doesn’t even know who Manson was or what he had done. Another ditz.
Newsweak, comparing the president to mass murderer Charles Manson.
They are officially now lower than petrified whale poop in the deepest hole of the Marianas trench.
Absolutely deplorable stuff, even for them.
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