Deadly Delusions: Right-Wing Death Cult

Do you suspect that right wingers are dangerously mentally ill? 
Do you want to know what makes them so dangerous?  
Do you want to stop them? 

Available now in paperback and ebook formats on Amazon!

An expanded edition is coming!

Support the Kickstarter here! Campaign begins November 4 (day after election day) and lasts for 30 days! Do something to inform yourself and fight back!

"Everybody needs to read this!" - Alyssa Brumis

Eight years in the making, Deadly Delusions: Right Wing Death Cult is a graphic nonfiction book that combines the social sciences, media, philosophy, and psychology to warn about the increasingly extreme right-wing propaganda flooding the media sphere and the stochastic terrorism that results from it.

The book is 188 pages, 8.5" x 11", and full color. 

This kickstarted campaign will fund a an expanded edition print run of 500 copies for a lower price than Amazon charges. The expanded edition will include a section of my poetry related to the themes of the book, such as "The People with the Least," "I Float in a Little Sea," "Second Amendment," and more poetry, some yet to be written!

A comic book about perhaps the most serious issue facing the human race today. - Shane Myerscough

            From the Introduction:

Educators want their students to live healthy, ethical lives within a healthy, ethical society. But an enormous obstacle stands in the way: a right-wing cult that poses an existential threat to personal and collective well-being. This cult, tens of millions strong, blocks efforts to address all other major problems including climate change, racism, economic exploitation, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet many people fail to see the right wing for the serious threat that it is. Often, those who do take the threat seriously lack a holistic understanding of the problem and grossly underestimate the difficulty of confronting it. The rise of an anti-intellectual, science-hating, rage-driven right wing is the culmination of sustained efforts by right wing organizations coinciding with multi-systemic failures in the domains of journalism, education, and politics. The right wing is dragging the world to doom and furiously blocking all attempts by good people to stop it. We are witnessing the suicide of human civilization and the closing of all opportunities to intervene effectively. We need a wake-up call, a proper diagnosis of our condition, and decisive action. Our situation has become so extreme that the proper terms for it – the president is a psychopath; his followers are delusional fanatics locked in a genocidal cult – sound like hyperbolic and childish name calling. The very words required to diagnose our condition have been banished from mainstream public discourse by decorum, disbelief, and a misbegotten sense of fairness. While we debate whether such terminology is appropriate, right-wing pathologies have grown more malignant and engrained in our society. We are at an impasse.

Description:

Deadly Delusions: Right Wing Death Cult is a graphic nonfiction book that uses the social sciences, media, philosophy, and psychology to understand the increasingly extreme right-wing propaganda flooding the media sphere and the stochastic terrorism that results from it. It rejects the argument that mass media must be “fair to both sides.” Rather, it holds mass media accountable for spreading mass delusion and pushing eliminationist rhetoric. 

Mauer’s primary target audience is activists on the left, who will need vigilance to diagnose and treat right wing delusion. Other audiences include students who want to understand what the social sciences, philosophy, psychology, and media studies say about our situation and researchers looking for further areas of study, such as the links between rhetoric and violence and the psychology of cults.