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   Is there a time, when fear is justified?   
      
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   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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