Is BushCo playing the fear card for all it's worth as we...

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

...approach the November midterms?

And secondly,

Is it working---are Americans afraid of their own shadow now?

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"I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house down"

by Luciana Bohne

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1186.shtml

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It seems to me from traveling abroad and from contacts all over the world that the people of the United States are some of the most terrified in the world.

Americans seem to be afraid of everything: germs, weather, bureaucracy, police, media, religious damnation, sex, science, credit collection agencies, airplane toilets, immigrants, liberals, foreigners, gays, self-determined women -- their own mothers even, I would venture to say. It is a mystery how they function at all, beset by so many largely irrational fears!

Meanwhile, their own government wages relentless state terror -- which includes a parallel domestic attack on US citizens' economic survival and social services -- all over the world. "Shock and awe" by the bloody buckets! If anybody should be terrified it is the world's people. But the people of the terrorized world suffer economic warfare, bombs, detentions, torture, and collective punishment, and still manage to stand up to the bully, either through non-collaborationist belligerence (Iraq), popular defiance (Palestine), or guerrilla resistance (Lebanon, Afghanistan). Not to mention Mexico and Latin America, where our government historically supported undemocratic or fascist regimes, which for decades terrorized whole populations but failed to cower them!

Why are the people of the West so scared and the rest not?...

[Freedom_from_Chains]

1. Fear is the only thing they have

What else would you expect them to play?

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

2. I agree, it is certainly no surprise.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

3. Kick for a larger sample.

[bridgit]

4. it's the only card they have...

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

5. kick for larger sample.

[redqueen]

6. Yes, and no.

I doubt all the huffing and puffing they can do will get the public to go all cowardly again.

That'd take yet another Reichstag. And then they'd be viewed as incompetent for letting it happen *again*.

They're screwed. Their only chance is fraud & gerrymandering.

With the number of people self-identifying as republicans down to 31%, the RNC has to be in a full-blown panic.

The ads they come out with will be... interesting.

[catmandu57]

7. Yes

That's the only arrow left in the quiver, I don't know if they'll try a staged attack, probably a highly publicized foiled attack, one that will be discovered to be false later, but, if done right will enable them to scare people enough to steal the govt. again.
The thing is people are getting tired of being scared all the time.

[The2ndWheel]

8. If everyone is afraid of everything

we're all playing the fear card to one end or another.

[bdamomma]

9. paranoid too

FEAR FEAR AND MORE FEAR, THAT IS ALL THIS REGIME CAN FEED US. What BS.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

10. As H.L. Mencken said:

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” H.L. Mencken

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

11. kick for a larger sample.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

12. kick for a larger sample.

[Imagevision]

13. Bush lost his fear card when Iran & Iraq kissed and made Buds today

Timing couldn't have been worse for Bush, Rove moves in coming weeks will be interesting...

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

14. Well, he did say he was a uniter.