[Ohioan]

Hoffer's discussion of the psychology of the "true believer," paints a picture quite consistent with the "reasoning" of many of those caught up in the Obama movement. It is not about anything supported by analysis of social problems or conditions--rather more about those who feel inadequate to deal with reality, puffing themselves up with whatever cause is handy.

William Flax

[Eleutheria5]

Obama’s cause, however, is not the sort that will hold a true believer for long. Let’s say socialized medicine is here to stay. What is the next grand crusade? Protecting socialized medicine? Defending gays in the military and gay marriage? The active phase of his “movement” is too short, the aftermath, too mundane to keep the true believers busy. Besides, it’s falling apart. He supported Arab Spring and the MB’s involvement, and it’s blowing up in his face. And when things blow up in the middle east, the price of gas at the pump ultimately goes up, and people get pissed. He might just sew enough discontent among the middle class to cause an anti-Obama mass movement, and finish like Mussolini, and the active phase of that movement would be stringing up his dispirited ex-true believers wherever they’re found. It won’t be pretty, but it might just have staying power where Obamania will ultimately ebb and fade.