“Lieberman: Ocasio-Cortez more socialist than Democrat “:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iSujjGS074

And seems to have a father who watches out for him.

Along with sources of “sufficient” funds.

All of which makes for a pretty good start, I guess.

Alas, not as much between the ears as Juan Fitzcarraldo or Roberto Francisco; but he’s tall, lanky and has a terrific smile.

Which might well be enough to get him past the post.

On the other hand he is, alas, a White Male!! (Though not old, not old.)

Nonetheless the powers-that-be can massage that rather unfortunate (these days) feature…disguising it (journalistic Coppertone?…or maybe the real thing) so that truly, this mostly untested version of the enduring political legend could in fact be elected America’s first Latin American president.

Neo-Camelot Ho!

When, early in his career, he began to campaign in southern Louisiana, he was warned by the local boss that this part of the state was Catholic. Huey responded with a story. He told how every Sunday he would hitch up a horse and drive his Catholic grandparents to church, after which he would drive his Baptist grandparents to their church. The person listening to the story said, “Huey, I didn’t know you had Catholic grandparents.” Huey responded, “Hell, we didn’t even have a horse.”

It looks good.

Neo: in my experience, giving money to my church is the easiest thing they ask me to do; getting “down in the trenches” with service, or accepting and living doctrines that force you out of your comfort zone is hard.

In re Jim Jones and other ersatz messiahs: the devout core that followed him in drinking the kool-aid were the ones who DID accept the hard things he preached.
Just because doctrines are hard doesn’t make them right, but easy-peasy religions generally fall by the wayside pretty fast.

He put together a cult which revered him and paid his bills, which allowed him to buy an island in Fiji from Raymond Burr(!), where he lived the rest of his bizarre life hidden from normal society.

I don’t have the words for how strange his books are and absurdly inflated in praise of himself.

He fooled a lot of people who should have known better, including transpersonal psychology authority, Ken Wilber, who is over-rated IMO but not crazy and taken seriously by many respectable authorities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adi_Da

Mike K: It’s starting to come out, but way too late.
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Flynn’s new book “Cult City: Jim Jones, Harvey Milk, and 10 Days That Shook San Francisco (ISI Books)” is a bold, at times shocking work of revisionist history that challenges what we think we know about both men and the murderous events that brought them to national prominence.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/jim-jones-harvey-milk-cult-city-secret-history/
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Jim Jones’s “People’s Temple” was the ACORN of its day. Whenever a liberal Bay Area candidate needed help in an election, Jones would put his people in buses for rallies and get out the vote efforts.

I think a lot of people who voted for him out of goodwill and a desire to heal racial tension would not be fooled again. The left wing Democrat base and the blacks would, of course, buy the same pig in a poke.

Maybe I am too cynical to believe in “Charisma” as anything but salesman talk.

Peterson and Bannon are at ease with others who disagree or even try to attack them. That takes something that I respect.

Jim Jones had “Charisma.” The pols believed in him. The real role he played in SF politics is still not discussed.

Interestingly, Erhard was able to train his trainers to recreate some of his charisma. In fact their explicit mission was to “recreate Werner.” They worked very hard to duplicate Werner’s words, tone and physical mannerisms.

The est trainers I saw were all very impressive people.

…one seminar leader got to his feet and with a serious look on his face.

–Outrageous Betrayal” p. 147

That’s Biblical language. With that line Erhard announced he was God and the people in the room sat still for it.