The Cargo Cult of Trump

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RedState: The Cargo Cult of Trump

By: Leon H. Wolf (Diary) | September 14th, 2015 at 01:00 PM

 

Back during World War II, the people of the Melenesian islands experienced a temporary an unexpected period of prosperity that was brought on by their convenience as a staging area for the island warfare that characterized the Pacific theater. The folks who inhabited these islands (who could only fairly be called primitive) watched in wonder as the Japanese and Americans in turn descended on their isolated homes, built airstrips, and generously distributed goods and services that they could only dream of. Thus, one of the world’s most destructive historical periods became a period of unprecedented prosperity for the Melenesians.

 

However, when World War II was over, the Americans and Japanese had no real reason to leave anyone on the islands, and so they packed up and left for home, and no one really thought much about the Melenesians. Some years later, sociologists visited the islands and visited bizarre behavior – the islanders were still mimicing random behavior that they associated with the influx of wealth, such as building airstrips for planes that were no longer coming. In many places they had begun following charismatic leaders who

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