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Related: About this forumRing of Fire: The Republican Strategy -- Scare Americans To Death
One of the only things that the Republican Party actually excels at is telling the American public WHAT they need to be afraid of. At the heart of all of their messaging is FEAR. The Republican Party needs the American public to be afraid, because they know that fear leads people to make irrational decisions like voting Republican so theyve mastered psychological manipulation and they use it to their advantage.
Ring of Fires Farron Cousins explains how this works with attorney Howard Nations.
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Ring of Fire: The Republican Strategy -- Scare Americans To Death (Original Post)
GoLeft TV
Mar 2015
OP
midnight
(26,624 posts)1. They sell fear, because fear sells...
Ford_Prefect
(7,901 posts)2. Just like Bibi did
ErikJ
(6,335 posts)3. Doesnt that make them 'terrorists' then?
I have a RW relative who becomes very terrified with everything that comes along (ebola, Latin children refugees, ISIS etc etc) and then goes into hyperbilic overdrive, blaming it on Obama/Dems who conspired to CAUSE the problem as their agenda to destroy the US and turn it into a communist dictatorship.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)4. American do love their fear, it is like an addiction...good luck to you who want to take away their thrills
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)5. Terror Threat Level: Blood Red!!!1!
Scared yet???