Crackpot wrote:Who would claim to be the successor to Manson?
Dales.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Crackpot wrote:I have doubts that the group will last much longer than Fred himself. I've personally seen the fallout after the death of a domineering patriarch.
The sooner the better. There are not many people I would wish it on, but I truly hope fred phelps ends up with ALS.
I really don't think the group is going to suddenly collapse when Phelps dies...
If you listen to these people being interviewed it seems to be more about their apocalyptic "vengeful God" philosophy than about him personally...
He already seems to be pretty removed from the day to day operation of the group...
I really think at this point it's Shirley who holds it together; (also most of these folks are related to each other in one way or another, which is another factor that probably tends to hold them together) I suspect that what will happen is that after the old man dies she will continue to preside over a smaller and smaller group that will continue to atrophy but go on for a while.