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GoLeft TV

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Tue Mar 17, 2015, 04:08 PM Mar 2015

Ring 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 they’ve mastered psychological manipulation and they use it to their advantage.

Ring of Fire’s 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
They sell fear, because fear sells... midnight Mar 2015 #1
Just like Bibi did Ford_Prefect Mar 2015 #2
Doesnt that make them 'terrorists' then? ErikJ Mar 2015 #3
American do love their fear, it is like an addiction...good luck to you who want to take away their thrills Fred Sanders Mar 2015 #4
Terror Threat Level: Blood Red!!!1! blkmusclmachine Mar 2015 #5
 

ErikJ

(6,335 posts)
3. Doesnt that make them 'terrorists' then?
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 05:45 PM
Mar 2015

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
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 09:11 PM
Mar 2015
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