CPAC Cult Gathering Builds Enthusiasm for Political Insanity
It would be easy for me to ramble on for several thousand words about the cult gathering in Florida, also known as the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Today, I’ll let the graphic do most of the talking.
What started out in 1974 as a small gathering of serious activists, sponsored by the American Conservative Union and Young Americans for Freedom has become a three ring circus featuring competition by opportunist politicos seeking to gain approval by way of spouting conspiracy theories.
Gone are the days of worshiping the invisible hand of the market. There are no ideological questions to be debated, because there are no dreams of a future path to explore. Now it’s all about paying homage to a sociopathic clan driven by a quest for power.
Donald Trump and his inner circle are in charge. A wink here, a nod there can equal access to a money machine based on tithes from the faithful.
The wealthy seek approval allowing access to insider information and opportunities for graft. Not-so-wealthy followers seek inclusion in a brotherhood based on rage and an all-consuming fear of the “other.”
Failing to meet the expectations of Dear Leader dooms unlucky souls to political exile, public ridicule, and the implied threat of physical violence from the ultra faithful.
While the news media may focus on controversial statements and actions designed to infuriate humans with a shred of empathy or dedication to reality, the Golden Calf idol of Donald Trump is what people should remember.
I’ll let John Stoehr provide the context:
People right away associated the graven image with the golden calf of the Bible—when Moses took so long bringing Yahweh’s Law down from Mt. Sinai that his brother succumbed to pressure to erect an idol to a competing god. “Mentioned in Exodus 32 and I Kings 12 in the Old Testament, worship of the golden calf is seen as a supreme act of apostasy, the rejection of a faith once confessed,” according to the Encyclopedia Britannica. “The figure is probably a representation of the Egyptian bull god Apis in the earlier period and of the Canaanite fertility god Baal in the latter.”
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