Donald Trump Has an Accused Cult Leader Proselytizing on His Behalf
March 14, 2018 in Blogs
Eight years ago, Barbara Weed returned to her South Leamington home in the U.K. to find a message from her son, Tom. He was moving in with a friend, he informed her, and she shouldn't try to contact him. Weed hasn't had direct contact with her son since, and knows only that he's living in a foreign country.
“It’s a pattern all too familiar for some families who’ve had a child watch [Stefan] Molyneux’s videos and listen to his podcasts,” writes Ben Collins in the Daily Beast. “At first, it’s just their kid watching videos about something controversial but familiar—The Matrix, The Martian, or Donald Trump. Then, a few months and a few more podcasts later, there’s a note on the door. After that moment, they never see their child again.”
Molyneux, a self-styled anarcho-capitalist with ties to the so-called alt-right, is among the president's most prominent proselytizers. As Collins' report makes clear, he's also an accused cult leader.
Among Molyneux's more effective tools of indoctrination is a lengthy video posted to the website UnTruthAboutDonaldTrump.com deconstructing what he contends are the media's willful misconceptions about our reality show host-cum-president. Molyneux insists he simply wants to provide a “fair assessment of the man's character,” acknowledging Trump's policies and positions are “well worth an examination, and certainly not above criticism.”
“For the first few minutes, it’s hard to disagree with him,” Collins notes. “Molyneux, slowly reading along from a PowerPoint-like text of talking points, breaks down passages from Trump’s Art of the Deal. He contends that Trump can’t possibly be as dimwitted as the media makes him out to be and convincingly argues that it all must be part of Trump’s plan…He is charismatic, open, immediately transfixing—almost enough for you to forget the video’s 73-minute run time.”
While his recordings indulge far-right grievances ranging from feminism and multiculturalism to postcolonial themes in Marvel's Black Panther, Molyneux's message to his acolytes is as simple as it is insidious: families are inherently abusive and must therefore be renounced. Molyneux calls this process “deFOOing” from one's “family …read more
Source: ALTERNET
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