Harry the Communist!

I’m not that smart nor am I nearly that succinct and so I didn’t come up with this. But, boy, I wish I had.

The difference between a religion and a cult is that a religion is hard to join but easy to leave whereas a cult is easy to join and hard to leave.

I received an email from, by her own admission, a dyed-in-the wool Obama supporter. She asked me to remove her name from the mailing list I use to tell you when I’ve posted more on this Blog. Of course, I’d like to think that you’d check it anyway but my sense of reality is bigger than my ego. Really it is! Ex-wives need not comment

Anyway this is what she said, “I am an Obama supporter all the way. I think this country should get behind him and quit working so hard against him and all he's trying to repair.”

So now we can add a little more detail to the differentiation between religions and cults for it seems that the adherents don’t even want to contemplate a different point of view. Nobody forced her to open my email. Nobody forced her to browse to this Blog. But, seemingly, the simple fact that someone was challenging this man was too much, whatever I said ………. And, she was invited, as all readers were and still are, to disagree and post dissenting views. But, not good enough for the cult devotees.

Here was my reply;

“I have removed you from my mailing list.

Sorry though, I shall continue to do what I can to defeat this man's socialist plans for this country. In fact, as Hillary reminded us in her classic screech (No, I spelled it right) it's our duty to provide opposition. That's the way democracy is supposed to work.”


Then I sat back and thought for a while and it slowly dawned on me. As I said I’m not that bright sometimes but I get there in the end. Oliver Cromwell knew it. Napoleon Bonaparte knew it. Adolf Hitler knew it. Kim Jong Il knows it. And so does Barach Obama. Personality cults do have one thing in common. The leader is the center not just of the world but of the Universe. Copernicus must be spinning in his grave and so must my father, Harry the Communist.