The GOP is the party of irrational fear mongering. Here are a few of their favorites, used to scare ignorant, brain-washed sheeple.
…So, here are ten of the most interesting things that absolutely terrify Wingnuttia. First, a few terrors of the real hard-core Right. For the Tea Partier, the midterm GOP primary voter, it’s not just the anxiety over social change that typifies more traditional conservatism. A broad chunk of the GOP base today is animated by wildly unrealistic terrors — monsters stalking them as the sun sets, perhaps hovering just beyond their peripheral vision.
1. Government Concentration Camps
…Fear of Obama’s Kenyan shock troops rounding up good conservatives and throwing them into Thunderdome-esque detention centers is nothing new on the Right…
2. Moooslims!
If you pay attention to the Right, you might think there are large Islamic armies occupying a few majority-Christian countries these days instead of the other way around…
3. They’re Coming to Take Your Guns
…This irrational fear is cause for a certain amount of rational fear among others. There have been at least two incidents of (no doubt already unhinged) people who took this threat so seriously they gunned down police officers in cold-blooded attacks.
4. Article 3 of the United States Constitution
Remember those Oath Keepers? They say they’ll honor their pledge to uphold the United States’ Constitution by defending against federal encroachment on states’ rights…
5. Plotting Global Elites
…It’s an increasingly popular conspiracy theory about a group of shadowy and mostly nameless international "elites" who are planning to "replace the United States" — in the words of Jerome Corsi, a key figure in the SwiftBoat Veterans for Truth project and a leading NAU conspiracist — with a transnational government…
6. The Decline of Married White Christians
This one worries the operative class: the decline of married white people who identify as “Christians.” The GOP relies on them — they represent the party’s most loyal demographic.
To be clear, there are a lot of white people, a lot of married people, and a lot of people who say they’re Christians. But the share of American voters who are white and married and identify as Christians has been in a long and steep decline, and by every estimate will continue to fall…
7. The Graying of the Culture Warriors
Because the plenty-plaint is so flexible, you can rest assured that tomorrow’s conservatives will never run out of wedge social issues. Nonetheless, some of the most popular aren’t being embraced by the kids these days, and that’s cause for alarm among those trying to win some elections.
An analysis by Columbia University statisticians found a “generation-gap” on support for same-sex marriage that they called “huge.” According to the nerds, “If policy were set by state-by-state majorities of those 65 or older, none would allow same-sex marriage. If policy were set by those under 30, only 12 states would not allow-same-sex marriage.” …
8. White Minority Status
Many people believe that in 2050, if birth and immigration rates do what experts expect them to, white folk will become a minority in the United States…
9. And the Browning of America
Among the political class a more reasonable fear is that the base’s boiling rhetoric over immigration will permanently alienate Latinos and Asian Americans, two fast-growing voting blocs that are heavily concentrated in a handful of key swing states. Rather than shaking over the prospect of a white demographic minority like Buchanan, they’re afraid the venom coming from Republicans like Tom Tancredo (R-CO) and JD Hayworth (R-AZ) will saddle them with a structural inability to win national elections for a generation…
10. Unions
Here’s another one that scares the Right-wing coastal elitists who in fact run the conservative movement, the operatives.
Most people understand that the Right’s corporate patrons don’t care for organized labor because it hurts the bottom line. But there’s another thing to fear: Union members are more likely to vote their economic interests than be blinded by culture war distractions…
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I’ve given you just a taste of this fine article, including just a snippet from each of the ten fears. I urge you to click through for the entire article for all the rich detail and documentation.
I fail to understand how people can be so deluded.
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I do. Huff Po had the lowest college graduates by state listed. Guess where they all were? Come on, I’ll give you 3 guess and the first two don’t count. All in the south, all at under 40%. Not to offend anyone here that doesn’t have a college degree, but college gives you a whole different perspective on life (plus all the drinking and having no curfew helps!). I went to a Presbyterian school but I only had to take one religion class and NEVER stepped foot in chapel until my gf was married there. In fact, I didn’t know anyone who attended. Their graduation rates for high school are in the 50’s; I couldn’t believe it when I saw it. So when you say they are ignorant, they really are. Again no offense to someone here that doesn’t have a degree of some kind. You all seem like a highly intelligent lot.
Lisa, all I have is a two year degree, but I got a better education in high school, having graduated 44 years ago, than most kids do in college today. If I had to guess I’d say the bottom three are Mississippi, Alabama, and West Virginia.
there are a ton of people without coll deg, who voted for Obama, Kerry, Gore, Clinton, most of the people in the labor unions do not have a deg, and it is offending to say that just because some one is less educated they won’t vote for dems, or will vote against their own best ineterest. I worked my butt off in the state of fl to make sure Obama won our state, I am so very proud of the people I worked with, wich came from every social economic class, with everyone from drs lawyers and out of work day laborers.. It is the right wing bunch of uneducated who votes against their own best economic intrest. I have no doubt a lot of it is simply based on the right to life issue, and the fact that there is a lot of racist hiding in the republican party, and many are not hiding so well. As democrats we have got to do a better job of getting our message out, so many people don’t even realize that they got a tax cut under Obama and they don’t understand that abortions have never gone down under republicans. We must help those who can be reached, and they can’t all be reached, understand what is in it for them, and why they have been led down the garden path by the republican party.
Thanks Liz. Your point is well taken. Thank you. I know Lisa well and am certain she intended no offence.
I also agree that we have to try to reach those who can be reached. That is why the rule here is that we discuss issues respectfully without insulting or attacking me of anyone who comments here. I have actually lost progressibe friends, because I deleted their comments when the refused to stop attacking righties who commented at PP. If righties are actually willing to discuss issues, they are welcome to comment here.
Thanks again, and I hope you come back.
Tom, I am afraid that you are going to have to include more than three at the bottom. Don’t forget Georgia (I have red necked, hillbilly cousins there) and South Carolina, Given the amount of political stupidity coming out of SC recently, you can’t overlook them. Texas? Don’t forget Texas and their text book rewriting of history. Oh hell, just include the entire south as being ignorant, backwards and uneducated. As for the concentration camps, that is really laughable. Just google Halliburton and concentration camps and that was a big fear and rumor going around when Dubya was president.
LOL, Charles. My bottom three was not intended to be all inclusive. But Texas has a special trick. They force underachievers out of the school system into GED programs, rarely completed. But because they left the schools for GED, they don’t count them as dropouts.
On your top ten list of scary monsters destroying America, how, oh how, could you leave out — The Homosexual Agenda?!?!?
Don’t you realize, homosexual teachers are seducing elementary school boys and recruiting them into their sick un-Godly lifestyle. When the Homosexual Agenda’s to-do list is complete, gangs of roving homosexuals will terrorize entire neighborhoods. They’ll stage home invasions, where they barge into somebody’s living room and start cavorting with each other right then and there, in front of the children!
Decent families will be powerless to stop this menace, because by then Obama will have confiscated their guns.
LMAO! But you are so right!
Tom, it was the author’s list, not mine, but you’re right on. Not only that, they’re using biological warfare to infect GOP legislators with “The Gay”! 😉