Politics of fear are still with us - Democratic Underground

Elmore Furth

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Sat Sep-05-09 08:26 PM
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Politics of fear are still with us

Edited on Sat Sep-05-09 08:35 PM by Elmore Furth

The Screech Owls on the Right are spewing out disaster and horror every day. "We are all doomed and Obama is taking us there!" What a bunch of toadies for the Neocon Disinformation Squad.

We know "Fair & Balanced" reporting is the ongoing description of terrorist-loving, America-hating liberals and the Conservative champions who will save us all.

The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated: 09/05/2009 12:14:21 AM MDT
Peg McEntee Jeremy Harmon/The Salt Lake Tribune

So President Obama wants to talk to kids about education. The political right is horrified. It's not only a socialist plot, they say, it's illegal. Even worse, the president is trying to steal the children's minds in some scenario in which a live video of Obama's speech will turn the little ones into leftist automatons.

It's all about fear, and we as a nation seem to be drowning in it.

We are gripped by recession and a 9.7 percent unemployment rate, the cost of living and health care are soaring and our military is fighting two increasingly intractable wars.

I don't buy it. Not the fearmongering, and not the notion that Obama is conspiring to turn our republic into name-your-most-hated nation: Canada, Britain, France.

Politics of fear are still with us

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Sarah Ibarruri

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Sat Sep-05-09 08:34 PM
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1. While Republicans are doing this to our country, we Democrats do absolutely nothing about it nt

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Sat Sep-05-09 08:41 PM
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2. It seems to me that Republicans are the ones that are terrified.

But they have always been that way. That's why they keep electing idiots and crooks. They can't face reality at all so they choose to be led by liars. If the great white whale of the republican rabble ever opened their eyes and looked around the real world we would have to medicate 20% of the population of the U.S..

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