How can you tell if you have been conned by a cult, even a political, religious or social cult?
How do you get out of a cult?
Read this book.
https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?jJYgIBP46qu8cMrJ7rlqn8T0VppG6jhdMFWZZrFGOQ7
Regain your personal freedom from anyone telling you how to think and what to do. You are in charge of you, not anyone or any group of people, no matter how kind, supposedly well-meaning, influential, important, wealthy, religious, political, or socially minded they might appear. This is a perfect example of mind control and self-sabotage. Fear is the unholy tactic they use. It is a manipulation tactic. Leave them as soon as humanly possible.
Follow your gut instinct, not some would-be leader, which is nothing more than a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Namaste