
Cult of Personality evident on Obama Love Train
As the Obama Love Train makes its way from city stop to city stop to the inaugural in Washington, D.C., the idea of a budding "cult of personality" is becoming starkly real.
The Wikipedia definition of cult of personality or personality cult "arises when a country’s leader uses mass media to create a heroic public image through unquestioning flattery and praise. Cults of personality are often found in dictatorships. Acult of personality is similar to general hero worship, except that it is created specifically for political leaders. "
The major examples of "personality cult" leaders all come from one-party states where the leader controls all the media. Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and the "Great Leaders Kim" of North Korea.
Everytime that Love Train stops, and Joe Biden finishes his saccharine introduction, the high fldelity speakers start blaring some of the most pompous and bombastic music I’ve ever heard associated with a politician in America.Maybe Communist Romania, but not America.
And though the Goverment and Obama don’t… Read More