Reply #17: The neocons appeal to the dark side in people: [View All]

[necso]

fear, hatred, arrogance, unbridled-desire, ignorance, gullibility, intolerance, weakness and weak-mindedness (etc). Although they (the neocons) usually try to disguise (keep secret, direct attention away from, etc) what they are really doing (which can be judged from their acts -- and from the consequences of these acts), and they will appeal to anything that might serve their ends.

And together with their fellow-travelers, hirelings and whorelings (speculators, gougers, chiselers, marketeers, PR-types, con-men, talking-heads, etc), the neocons have demonstrated great skill in manipulating and exploiting those who should understand their own interests better -- and act like they do.

It's the nature of neocons to do this -- and it's the nature of people to be susceptible.

So we must counter -- and plan on countering -- these efforts by the neocons; and we must point out neocon lies and distortions (etc). But we must also open the people's eyes to the nature of the games that are being played on them (and to the consequences thereof), so that these games may be recognized generally (by their natures) -- and so that these games may be defeated generally.

(In detail: if one buys the fear that the neocons are selling, then one is acting like a coward -- and will likely suffer a coward's cringing fate. And if one buys the weakness, heedlessness and pigheadedness that is being sold by neocons as strength, then, when this farce falls flat, only failure, defeat, calamity and ruin can be expected. More generally, if you buy the pretense of something (here, strength), then you will get only the pretense of it -- together with the consequences of how this disguised thing actually operates (that is, the consequences of it's actual, not pretended, nature; here, weakness, heedlessness and pigheadedness.))