Even atheists can be deulsional/ OP ED

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Didn't Hitchens refer to it as a Necrocracy? Lorded by the deceased Kim Il Sung as the Supreme Leader, I think that's very apt.

I never read anything by Hitchens, Dawkins or Harris and didn't pay them much attention. But this seems to be right. But a strong factor is also the pseudo religious and mythical elements woven into their ideology. They attribute all the Kims with being born at holy Korean sites and several mythical or heavenly signs surrounding their birth. So it's more on the lines of religious savior figures than actual dictators.

With all the personality cult surrounding Hitler or Stalin, they never did something like that. Their narrative was a person coming being born into the masses and to tirelessly working towards the wellbeing of the pople. Stalin was repeatedly called "friend of the people" or "daddy Stalin". Hitler was called "the people's chancellor".