Brexit/Trump Documentary

[cronus]

[Hermit]

This documentary focuses on Heaven's Gate cult and their mass suicide in 1997. Being led by Marshall Applewhite, Heaven's Gate cult members believed that their souls would ascend to a spaceship following comet Hale-Bopp and would thereafter be given new bodies. The group members committed mass suicide in their Rancho Santa Fe mansion. A media circus followed the discovery of their bodies. In the aftermath, commentators and academics discussed how Applewhite persuaded people to follow his commands, including suicide. Some commentators attributed his followers' willingness to commit suicide to his skill as a manipulator, while others argued that their willingness was due to their faith in the narrative that he constructed.

Trump is no Marshall Applewhite, nor were the prominent Brexiters, but yeah, some parallels can be drawn. I don't see much utility in comparing either election with the events within the cult that lead to the mass suicides.

[cronus]

This documentary focuses on Heaven's Gate cult and their mass suicide in 1997. Being led by Marshall Applewhite, Heaven's Gate cult members believed that their souls would ascend to a spaceship following comet Hale-Bopp and would thereafter be given new bodies. The group members committed mass suicide in their Rancho Santa Fe mansion. A media circus followed the discovery of their bodies. In the aftermath, commentators and academics discussed how Applewhite persuaded people to follow his commands, including suicide. Some commentators attributed his followers' willingness to commit suicide to his skill as a manipulator, while others argued that their willingness was due to their faith in the narrative that he constructed.

Trump is no Marshall Applewhite, nor were the prominent Brexiters, but yeah, some parallels can be drawn. I don't see much utility in comparing either election with the events within the cult that lead to the mass suicides.

Give it a year and the parallels will increase sufficiently. UKIP if you want to.

[Svartalf]

This documentary focuses on Heaven's Gate cult and their mass suicide in 1997. Being led by Marshall Applewhite, Heaven's Gate cult members believed that their souls would ascend to a spaceship following comet Hale-Bopp and would thereafter be given new bodies. The group members committed mass suicide in their Rancho Santa Fe mansion. A media circus followed the discovery of their bodies. In the aftermath, commentators and academics discussed how Applewhite persuaded people to follow his commands, including suicide. Some commentators attributed his followers' willingness to commit suicide to his skill as a manipulator, while others argued that their willingness was due to their faith in the narrative that he constructed.

Trump is no Marshall Applewhite, nor were the prominent Brexiters, but yeah, some parallels can be drawn. I don't see much utility in comparing either election with the events within the cult that lead to the mass suicides.

Electing trump was mass suicide on the ^part of America