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Left vs. Right: It's all about fear, real vs. concocted
« on: July 10, 2018, 01:41:53 pm »
American Thinker
Patricia McCarthy
July 10, 2018

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Put simply, Trump, Adams says, uses fear – but fear of reality, actual threats, fear of those outside our borders who do in fact mean us harm: ISIS, criminal illegal migrants like MS-13, North Korea's and Iran's nuclear ambitions, grossly unfair trade policies of China, the threat a regulatory state poses to liberty, etc.

The left, on the other hand, manipulates and incites fear of fellow Americans, one's neighbors.  That is precisely what the Democrats do.  On a daily basis, they rant and rave about the evil of American white men, of American conservatives of any stripe, of offensive words, of American Christians, of nuclear families.  They want us all to boycott businesses owned by Christians, like Chick-fil-A.  They malign and attack politicians, columnists, and jurists who are not far-left activists and defend illegal migrants, anti-American Muslims, even sexual predators like those who attempt to enter the U.S. with smuggled children not their own.

More... https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/07/left_vs_right_its_all_about_fear_real_vs_concocted.html

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Re: Left vs. Right: It's all about fear, real vs. concocted
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2018, 05:08:56 pm »
Fear is never as good of a motivator as hope.

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Re: Left vs. Right: It's all about fear, real vs. concocted
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2018, 05:27:25 pm »
Fear is what stokes mobs to action.  It's a short-term tool to ignite chaos and upheaval or to instigate fight or flight.
Fart for freedom, fart for liberty and fart proudly.  - Benjamin Franklin

...Obsta principiis—Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers and destroyers press upon them so fast that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon [the] American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour." - John Adams, February 6, 1775