Personality cult
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A personality cult or "cult of personality" is a system in which a leader is able to control a group of people through the sheer force of his or her personality.
[edit] Examples
- Hitler and Nazi Germany
- Kim Il Sung and North Korea
- Andrew Schlafly and Conservapedia
- Jim Jones and his Kool-Aid drinkers
- David Koresh and the disaster we know as Waco
- Augustus Caesar
- Ronald Reagan
