What the Republicans Fear Is the Loss of Fear
November 29th, 2010 Filed under: Republican Beliefs �
Contributing Writer
Fear is a tool that is used far too often in politics. Both
major parties use fear from time to time, but it seems that
Republicans use fear way too often as a tool to manipulate us,
and more importantly, they lie about what to fear.
They want you to fear the foreign government that is going to
come here and kill us. Now this is something that we should
always be mindful of as a nation, but we shouldn�t be making
widespread lies to strike fear into the hearts of Americans so
that we can invade and occupy a nation for a decade that hasn�t
done anything to us. They go on TV and tell you that this guy
has biological weapons and this guy has nukes and if you don�t
elect us, these evil entities will come to your home town and
erase it from the map. They used this fear tool so effectively
in 2004 that we as a nation re-elected the dumbest President we
have ever had to a 2nd term. That is how fearful they had us.
They want you to fear the Muslims even though they say Islam is
not a religion of hate. They talk about Islamic Extremists
every chance they get. Do they ever call any other extremist
group or terrorist organization by their religion the way they
do with Muslims? No. They want to keep making sure that you
hear �Muslim� or �Islamic� every time something bad happens to
justify their actions in the middle east. They never once
referred to Tim McVeigh as a �Christian Terrorist� even though
he said after the bombings that he was doing �Gods work�. They
never once referred to Dr Tillers murderer as a �Christian
Extremist� even though the only reason he murdered Dr Tiller
was because of a difference in religious beliefs. The other
reason the want you afraid of Islam and Muslims directly leads
to the next thing they want you to fear�..President Obama.
They constantly try to tie Obama with Islam because if they
already have you afraid of Muslims, and they get you to believe
Obama is a Muslim, then you will naturally fear him. What
amazes me about the fear tools they use when it comes to the
President is that they equate him to a Muslim because they know
they have you all ginned up on Islam, but then they say he�s a
Communist or a Marxist. How many Muslim KGB agents do you ever
recall hearing about? They, when it comes to Obama. Want you to
fear any number of things that aren�t true. Fear that he�s a
Muslim. Not true. Fear that he�s a Communist. Not true. Fear
that he will take your guns away. Not true. Fear that he will
tax you into the poor house. Not true. Fear that he will crush
small businesses with his policies. Not true. But in the
Republican world, it doesn�t matter if its true or not. All
that matters is if they can get you to fear it, because if they
can get you afraid of it, you will vote against it. And if you
vote against it, they will have the power.
They want you to fear the economy. How many times does Glenn
Beck push gold right after telling you that the Democratic
government is destroying the dollar and your bank accounts will
be worth nothing in the very near future? They tell you the
economy is going to completely collapse and that you need gold
as a purchasing tool, and an emergency seed stash to plant a
garden for when the supermarket shelves will be bare. The fear
is based on the one thing everyone wants and needs�money. The
ironic part is that while Glenn Beck is telling you the economy
is collapsing, he is getting richer� off of fear.
They want you to fear that which isn�t like them� homosexuals,
women who have thoughts of their own and anyone who doesn�t
long for the good old days of the 1950s. They want you to fear
that if a homosexual couple gets married, then your marriage
won�t mean anything. They want you to fear that if homosexuals
adopt kids, then those kids will be homosexual too. They want
you to fear a woman�s right to choose, and to be honest with
you, I can�t figure out why. They want you to fear anyone who
doesn�t think like you because apparently the last 400 years
hasn�t shown them that different groups of people that do not
have anything in common other than a desire to be free can come
together to live in peace and prosperity.
They want to use fear to keep you from voting against them.
They want you to believe that they have all of the answers and
the Democrats do not so you should fear the Democrats.
Democrats use fear as well. The difference between what
Democrats tell you to fear and what Republicans tell you to
fear is that the fear the Democrats speak of is real. Democrats
want you to fear putting a party back in power that took a
record surplus and turned it into a record deficit, led us into
the worst recession in 80 years and was the cause of millions
of jobs being lost in this country. That is real fear when it
comes to the economy. Democrats want you to fear putting a
party back in control that wages war for its friends to be able
to profit, costing thousands of American lives and billions of
American dollars. That�s is real fear when it comes to foreign
policy. Democrats want you to fear putting a party back in
power that oppresses homosexuals, women and minorities. That�s
real fear on the domestic front, not that the President is a
Muslim Communist born in Kenya with radical Christian views on
social justice. Which, by the way, doesn�t make sense at all.
How can you demonize Obama for his radical Christian church
that he attended for 20 years as you are so apt to point out
every change you get, yet still demonize him for being a
Muslim? How many Muslims do you know that have attended a
Christian church for 20 years?
Don�t buy the fear the Republicans are peddling. They want you
to be afraid so you will vote them back into power. The real
fear that Americans should be feeling is about returning to the
destructive policies and actions of the last 8 years� or even
worse� if the next wave of Republicans are even more right wing
than the last bunch. Those would be known as the Teabaggers�
and that is what I really fear.
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