Want a few good examples?
- The intelligent and industrious German people of the mid-twentieth century were oddly ready to be swept away in Hitler's wave of hatred that ultimately led to the dreadful destruction of their proud country.
- Even the otherwise placid 1950's was not immune to cults. The most famous was probably the Fountain of the World cult. A man named Frances Pencovic changed his name to Krishna Venta, attracting followers to his new religion with his tale of leading a convoy of rocket ships to Earth from the extinct planet Neophrates. Everything seemed to be going extremely well until Venta was killed in a suicide bombing perpetrated by a couple of former Fountain of the World followers.
- Alienated people who felt like outcasts in their contemporary culture came under the spell of the homicidal maniac Charles Manson in the late 1960's. Following Manson's teachings of "Helter Skelter", these disaffected people committed a string of brutal murders in the sick hope that they would spark a "race war" that would destroy everybody but them.
- Disaffected-and otherwise very good-people who were simply longing for understanding were pulled in to the twisted orbit of the Reverend Jim Jones and The People's Temple in the 1970's. Many of those otherwise very good people ended up face down in the Jonestown mud of Guyana.
- Very devout-and very desperate-people were lured by the apocalyptic teachings of David Koresh in the early 1990's. Approximately eighty people were ultimately consumed in the terrible conflagration that destroyed Koresh's Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas on April 19, 1993.
- Susceptible-but otherwise rational-people were seduced by the unusual doctrines of Marshall Applewhite in the latter 1990's. Desperately hoping that the pedestrian Comet Hale-Bopp was actually a spaceship on a mission to take them all to a better place, Applewhite's followers castrated themselves, donned black uniforms emblazed with the words "Heaven Gate's Away Team", put on Nike gym shoes, threw some quarters in a bag and committed suicide.
- Many Satanic cults have started in the 21st Century. People estranged from the turmoil of the modern world have been lured in to believing that the evil Lucifer can bring them great wealth and happiness. But then, there is that problem with human sacrifice.
General Zod is the dishonest doofus who was at the helm of the civic club for most of the time hundreds of thousands of dollars was being embezzled out of that organization's treasury. General Zod was wasting his misspent time bashing everyone else and creating straw man enemies while his treasurer-buddy was stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars. Insanity, yes. But it was pure, unadulterated General Zod.
General Zod and his facile followers helped the miscreant Mike Martin spread his "vile and disgusting" lies in 2010. That dishonest effort was a major reason that Martin eked out a razor-thin mayoral victory that year. It is amazing what a crazy cult can accomplish sometimes.
Well, the malevolent Martin is now standing for re-election in 2014. The miniature Mussolini is facing strong completion for the mayor's office. So, the calumnious civic club leader General Zod is at it again.
What is General Zod doing? He's trying to rally the civic club asshats to spread Martin's lies yet again. How? He's telling people that Martin's most formidable opponent, Ernie Brown, "made a mess of the civic club". General Zod is trying to blame the former club President Brown by saying that the club's books are in such disarray that "an audit is necessary". It is such a pack of dishonest deception that it even makes the mendacious Martin proud.
If General Zod was such a big believer in audits, he would have had one done when his buddy-the man who went to prison for embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the civic club treasury-was stealing from the club. But General Zod inexplicably turned a blind eye then. A careful review of an IRS audit from just a few years ago might explain why.
Will the civic club asshats end up castrating themselves, donning black jumpsuits that say "Hail Martin", collecting a bag of quarters and committing suicide? Will the civic club asshats barricade themselves into the lodge sparking a showdown with the feds that leads to a deadly conflagration? Will the civic club asshats end up dead, face down in the mud of the infields of Franzen Field? Will former civic club asshats kill General Zod in a suicide bombing? None of that is likely.
Instead, the civic club asshats will once again host an October hillbilly hoedown called a "Candidate's Forum", The phony forum will be designed to portray Mike Martin as something other than the imbecilic crook he truly is.
We'll know if that works this time in just 71 days.
