Movements that demand total loyalty to a cause or leader. Sourced profiles of political sects, conspiratorial cadres, and ideological movements that demand total loyalty, ego-stripping, or epistemic closure.
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A secular, conspiratorial political organization founded by Lyndon LaRouche in 1968 that evolved from a New Left student faction into a syncretic far-right ideological sect utilizing 'ego-stripping' psychotherapy, 16-hour phone-bank fundraising quotas, and apocalyptic intelligence narratives.
A decentralized, crowdsourced digital millenarian phenomenon characterized by collaborative cryptic interpretation ('baking drops'), apocalyptic dualism, and algorithmically reinforced epistemic closure across social media.
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