Negan Never Made Sense
People just falling to their knees and obeying him.
Letting him bone their wives? Just going along with it?
Refusing to escape, move on?
Just nonsense.
You don’t see any parallels to that in history?
You’ve never heard of the Waco, Texas cult? How about Jonestown?
People are nuts, and they will buy into damn near anything. That Waco cult leader said he was the only one pure enough to sleep with the women, so he had sex with all of the wives.
Crazier things have happened in real life than Negan and The Saviors in The Walking Dead. Haha.
But that's my problem. It is never presented as that. It's presented as people all hating him and having independent thought right from the start.
Real cults are subversive and subtle. But Negan just demands subservience and gets it (from people who really don't like him).
It starts off subversive and subtle, then they gain loyal followers and power. We meet Negan at the height of his power when disloyal people are brutally killed, therefore they silently go along.
Furthermore, you can witness Negan's psychological manipulation with Carl and Eugene.
Yes, two more people... it doesn't work on.
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