“Can a person who has been successfully subjected to NLP be, for lack of a better term, reverse engineered to determine what post-hypnotic suggestions, triggers, and commands were planted and by what specific means (pacing, anchors, etc)?”
Yes, I do that all the time to heal inadvertant programming.
“Do you think that mass hypnosis has the same effect as cult induction (i.e. are the subjects instructed to unconsciously avoid thinking, reality, self-analysis, idol criticism, etc).”
Yes, while some of the techniques vary between group and individual application, they are the same principles.
Given that, it seems Obama is directing both barrels of this shotgun at the American public. And that might explain his remarkable success as evidenced by his creation of what we conservatives call the 'Kool-Ade intoxicated' crowd.
Knowing you are a professional, I would love to get your opinion on the behavior of this crowd vis-a-vis their complete reliance on character assassination and their assiduous avoidance of anything like rational thinking, logic, and empirical reasoning. It has been my experience that cults are conditioned to check their minds and consciences at the door (i.e. relegate their minds to group leaders).
Does it seem to you that this is what we are witnessing in the Left's purely emotional (limbic) attacks on conservatives who oppose Obama ("racists, teabaggers, etc.") and in blaming them for the Tucson shooting for example?