Politicians can use fear to manipulate the public

I am not alone in having thought this has been well known for as long as politics has been practiced, am I?

Global warming..... bailouts.... the economy.... health care.... social security.....

The left has nothing but fear....

hmmm, was the study funded by taxpayers' money?

Oh and since most of the media are leftest, they seldom if ever report on the mis-statements and out right lies that leftist politicians say.

I blame it on half the population being below average intelligence.

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as in "Bears CAN shit in the woods?"

Fear to manipulate the public, wow the author must be a genius. Seriously since 911 politicans have been using the fear of Mr Terry Wrist to erode civil liberties around the globe and the media morons keep publishing it think people want to read.

Oh and since most of the media are leftest, they seldom if ever report on the mis-statements and out right lies that leftist politicians say.

Ahhhh, Rupert Murdoch owns 75% of media.

I'm not left or right(stupid label) but I just want you to know the truth....

"We have nothing to fear but fear itself." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Although lately, I think we have nothing to fear but our own government(s)...

Read much Machiavelli lately? All of this is old hat.

Problem. Reaction. Solution. Create a problem to garner a specific reaction then offer a solution. The old "let a lion run loose in the streets" trick.

And yeah... It works. On both sides of the political Left-Right spectrum.

A pox on both their houses.

Never fear the Governmnet is here.... ask Canada, England, Russia, China, Mexico how good their civil liberties are, how free they are, how they have no fear for their security, health, wealfare, jobs, free speech, etc.... and now... good old USA

Wow, what a revelation. What moron didn't know the politicians did this?

"We have nothing to fear but fear itself." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Although lately, I think we have nothing to fear but our own government(s)...

Read much Machiavelli lately? All of this is old hat.

Yes.

Actually..the fear manipulation tactic is as old as the first arguement by two males over the first female. It's damn old.

With regards to 'societal mass' manipulation, it was done by the money changers and the 'leaders' way back in Sumerian times, when they invented FIAT currencies...over 6,000 years ago.

Never fear the Governmnet is here.... ask Canada, England, Russia, China, Mexico how good their civil liberties are, how free they are, how they have no fear for their security, health, wealfare, jobs, free speech, etc.... and now... good old USA

The deal is that the manipulation is SOoo.. good in the USA..that people falsely believe that their government is not fascist. It is so manipulative and 'in control' for so long that we get such dumkopft statements like that I have quoted.

One tiny piece of evidence?

Canada: 1 out of every 912 people are in the criminal system. (we COUNT our minors as well in that stat)

USA: one out of every 31 people ins in the criminal justice system.

In the USA... they DON'T count their minors..otherwise the number would be FAR worse. As in about one out of every 25 people would be in the criminal system. Canada would be at near one out of every 1000 people.

In the criminal system meaning: either in Jail, on parole, or on probation.

Now look at that statistic again. Even if it bothers you. It's frightening, isn't it? That is the LACK OF A SOCIAL NET--you Americans have been FOOLED INTO BELIEVING that a social net is 'commie' or something, by the moneychangers and scum who have controlled your system for so long. It has infected your lives from cradle to grave-so you can't see it for what it is. This is part of the mechanism of using fear-fear of commies, etc. 'Evil socialism'- so they manipulated the system to rape your lives and make your believe that taking care of one another is EVIL. Such utter bullshit.

The evil parts of the US government (it's individual PERSONS that are responsible, not a 'party' that is responsible-get it straight; The whole 'team' thing is a 'red herring', it's there to distract your sorry ass.) are the problem of course. Which at this advanced state of sorry affairs - means just about all of it.

Heh there's actually a good documentary parallelling the US neo-con politics and the fear tactics going back to the cold war, all through to 9/11 and the rise of fundamentalist Islam & the Osama gang.

Very nice doc to watch, the full title is "The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear", 4 parts, but well worth the time.

I find it strange that I as an Eastern-European from the ex-soviet block know more and have been inquisitive enough to find out more about this stuff than the average American.

Oh and GG for the study. More pointless reasearchism.

News flash: Rhetoric exists.

And in other research....

Water CAN be wet

The sky CAN be blue

Gravity CAN make apples fall off of tree

Tag this research in the "No sh!t, Sherlock" file.

Methinks we all should have a drink and calm down - the Iraqee attack on 911 created a NEED for greater security in order for freedom to be valued. "We cannot have true peace without either preparing or waging war" - Voltaire

Dick Cheney without doubt, wins the gold medal for the most manipulative fear-mongering of our time. Every time the issue of the law or of human rights abuses comes up, he leaps up to remind the American public that we are all in mortal danger from %u2018terrorists%u2019.

So are we to believe that the most powerful nation the world has ever known %u2013 a country with more destructive weapons than the rest of the planet put together, and with a history of using that power to devastating effect - is in extreme danger by some radicalized, disenfranchised peasants from Asia and Africa %u2013 more dangerous than the Soviet Union during the Cold War, a country with weapons to match America%u2019s? These people are so dangerous that this country has to sacrifice the very values that it used against the British to gain independence?

Cheney%u2019s clever advantage is that the %u2018enemy%u2019 is unseen. If the public could actually see who these %u2018terrifying human beings%u2019 actually are, understand their stories, their backgrounds, who they are, what they are called, what they believe in and above all, why they hate America, then the public would see human beings with concepts and emotions like the rest of us, not some enduring monsters without faces.

But what does Cheney care? As long as he gets heard, and as long as the influence of fear works, then he has power.