All of them perhaps? Cult leaders have a magnetic power precisely because they convince their followers that they have been freed from the intellectual shackles binding them to the rest of society and are now free to ‘think for themselves’. To be fair, all cult members believe (at the time) what they are doing is ‘logical’. It’s precisely this that allows the MSM to smear us in this way.
It is true that anyone is free to leave. But not many cults literally kidnap their victims, the control is psychological, and victims always go deeper willingly believing they’ve made entirely their own decisions of their own free will.
All of them perhaps? Cult leaders have a magnetic power precisely because they convince their followers that they have been freed from the intellectual shackles binding them to the rest of society and are now free to ‘think for themselves’. To be fair, all cult members believe (at the time) what they are doing is ‘logical’. It’s precisely this that allows the MSM to smear us in this way.
Cults are controlling, where's the control here? Who's telling anybody what to do?
It is true that anyone is free to leave. But not many cults literally kidnap their victims, the control is psychological, and victims always go deeper willingly believing they’ve made entirely their own decisions of their own free will.
It's literally not the same situation. By your definition any serious hobby club is a "cult."