Speaker 1: One more clip I want to look at with you today.
Without making fun of anyone.
One of the things we've been talking about this week and last in the context of the midterm
elections, when doing interviews like our correspondent Luke Beasley did at a Trump
rally over the weekend, we have talked about we're not joking here.
This is serious.
We've talked about how difficult it can be to distinguish what is a cult member who has
been brainwashed, what is an ignorant person and what is a mentally ill person?
When someone says, I think JFK Jr is alive and is the president right now.
Is that something that you believe because you're part of a cult?
Is that something you believe because you just don't realize the truth about JFK jr
and when he was killed and how or is that something you say because you're mentally
ill?
Or is it all three in some combination?
The.
Epitome of this Venn diagram is a tour called Reawaken America.
Eric Trump, one of Donald Trump's children, has been a regular attendee at these events.
This is a little clip from right before Tuesday's election where they are striking the ground
with imaginary arrows to call upon God to win the midterm elections for them.
Speaker 2: How many believe we're going to have a victory on Tuesday?
Yeah.
So come on, let's give a victory shot.
Let's strike the ground and let's give a victory shout.
On the count of three.
You're ready?
Yeah.
So here we go.
Get your arrows out.
Just go.
Speaker 1: Strike and strike and strike.
Speaker 3: Strike!
Speaker 2: Strike!
Come on.
You've got a strike.
Come on, strike.
Come on, strike the round.
Speaker 1: They've got the band and everything, huh?
Speaker 2: Strike.
Come on.
Strike.
Speaker 1: This is.
This is.
I'm cringing.
I'm really cringing.
Unidentified: Come on.
Terrific.
Great, great.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Where is this?
On our Venn diagram.
Where is this on the Venn diagram of cult brainwashing, simple ignorance and mental
illness?
I think it's a very difficult question and I think it's an interesting question.
It's not about making fun of these people.
Now you know why it didn't work, right?
You know why Oz lost amphetamine.
One eye was striking with imaginary arrows against Oz and it just canceled it out.
I did it so correctly and accurately.
I'm kidding.
But that's why this is all so insane.
I don't know the answer.
I genuinely don't know the answer.
I don't know whether we say this is a form of mental illness and delusion, whether these
are just folks who have been brainwashed, or whether they ignorantly believe that striking
the ground with fake arrows affects election results.
I do not know, but Michael Flynn and Eric Trump regularly participate in these events
and the interplay, the blending between.
Sort of elected officials, although Eric Trump isn't an elected official, but political individuals
and these types of extreme religious events.
There is no fine line between them anymore.
They are together.
The American right wing political establishment and the extreme.
I think these are evangelical folks.
Evangelical right wing establishment have blended into one and that's where we are.
It's really scary stuff.
Let me know what you make of it.
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Where is this on that?
Spectrum or circle or triangle of ignorance, cult brainwashing and mental illness.
Let me know what you think.
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