No, I don't think so. He's a friend of a FB friend.
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Replying to @gorskon
I just didn't know he was a Bernie bro until the topic came up on my FB friend's page.
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Replying to @the_keybard
IKR? There was an element of that cultishness to Obama's support, but it didn't reach the depressing levels we see in Trump supporters, for instance.
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Replying to @the_keybard
There was definitely an element of cultishness about Reagan, too. 1980 was the first presidential election I voted in, and, TBH, I fell for it too. I think it had something to do with being a senior in high school during the Iranian hostage crisis.
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The daily humiliation the US suffered during the Iranian hostage crisis warped the politics of a lot of young men, I think. It turned us into Reagan youth. Although I never officially joined the GOP, I voted Republican (with one exception) for more than 20 years after that.
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It was the increasingly crazy reaction to the Clinton Presidency and and antiscience attitudes that started gripping
@GOP throughout the 1990s and beyond that started my slow deprogramming, which took over a decade to turn me to@TheDemocrats.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
It was the invasion of Iraq that was the last straw. Also, by then I'd finally figured out that tax cuts do not pay for themselves. I might be slow to learn, but I do learn eventually.
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In any event, any charismatic political leader is going to have a bit of a cult of personality about him, some more than others. I fear that social media has simply shifted the normal tendency of followers of political movements to become a bit cult-like towards VERY cult-like.
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