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Fear never goes out of fashion. Once again Republicans are dealing in fear instead of facts, and why not? It's worked in the past, and a nation that's locked in seemingly permanent recession and high unemployment may be in the market for some scapegoats.
From Muslims to Medicare, Republicans Are Selling Fear Again
Seeded on Thu Jun 16, 2011 4:22 PM EDT
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Ministry of Fear
The word "Medicare" appeared 41 times in the debate. The word "Muslim" appeared 9 times. But in their eagerness to eliminate Medicare and cut Social Security, you know what word these candidates didn't mention in that context? Taxes. As in raising them back to a reasonable level for the wealthy. Polls show that's how the public wants to address these programs, but they're having none of it.
So how do you convince Americans to accept a program like Ryan's, when a recent CBS News poll shows that only 31% of the population supports it? How do you convince seniors who oppose that plan nearly 2:1 to vote for a Republican presidential candidate who supports it?
You make them afraid. Very, very afraid. You make them afraid that the president is literally un-American. You make them afraid of Muslims and Sharia law. You make them afraid that the people who are defending Medicare are actually destroying it. You do all the silly and hateful things that repel and offend decent people everywhere, those things that decent people are sure in their hearts could never sway an election -
- and which so often do.
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#1 - Thu Jun 16, 2011 4:25 PM EDTWell said!
I heard someone say the other day that Obama's policies are so anti-busisness that we will stop being a nation soon.
I almost wanted to laugh. I asked about the policy or policies she had in mind... You could hear the crickets chirping....
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SELLING FEAR? Like a commercial showing Granny in a wheelchair being thrown off a cliff?
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When you lack ideas, moral values, sound judgment the you must attack, instill fear, create doubt another words be a Republican.
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#2 - Thu Jun 16, 2011 4:56 PM EDTFear is a great isolator tool...divide and conquer. If we stay to ourselves we aren't conspiring against them together lol. Republicans, Democrats...they are all the same. They are people who have to play a game the whole time they are in office. They have to figure out how to stay in favor with their peers and financial backers and still get re-elected and maintain the trust of their constituents. How many of us would step up for these jobs? I personally couldn't hack it! Many of these people were probably very well meaning before they stepped into the mean streets of politics. Money, power and fear are truly the great corrupters. I'm not saying pity them, they chose the life but sometimes I wonder if some of them want things to be different but they are being held back by fear.
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#3 - Thu Jun 16, 2011 5:43 PM EDTJackie, you're going off topic. Please read the title of the seed, then the article.
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yep fear... it's how Bush got reelected in 04. those color coded warnings going off every 5 minutes it seemed and once the election was over ? they disappeared.
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#4 - Mon Jun 20, 2011 12:27 AM EDTI find it fascinating that selling fear works so well. One would think that crying "wolf" once too often would cast doubt on their veracity.
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