The Midterm Elections of 2014 might be decided not on the issues, but on the promotion of fear and panic, being utilized to scare voters!
It is not a new tactic by the Republican Party, but rather an old strategy used in the past.
Leave it to the GOP to use fear of “Socialism”, “Progressivism”, “Liberalism”, distorting all three terms as against America, as a way to prevent political, social, and economic reform that takes power away from the wealthy and the corporations!
The Red Scare of the late 1940s and early 1950s, as promoted by Richard Nixon, Joseph McCarthy, and other demagogues, had a deleterious effect on people’s lives, and victimized many innocent people.
Fear and panic were used by Presidents, including Richard Nixon and George W. Bush to promote war in Vietnam and in Iraq!
The Republican Party has abandoned its original support of African American civil rights, and has now promoted racism to attract uneducated and poor and lower middle class whites to vote against their own economic interests.
Now fear and panic are being used because of the Ebola Crisis to convince people to vote Republican, despite the fact that the GOP has done nothing positive in any form, and has set out to obstruct everything that Barack Obama has tried to do, with him succeeding in many initiatives despite constant attack and criticism and attempts to block progress.
If the Republicans succeed in convincing the American people to go nuts over Ebola, when the flu and pneumonia causes 50,000 deaths a year without fear and panic; and if 11,000 people a year killed by firearms annually is not seen as a crisis; then the American people will get what they deserve—incompetent, corrupt, and uncaring government, which will work to undermine all of the progress of the New Deal and Great Society for the past 80 years!
Last week, the headlines were about Ebola. This week, it’s a shooting in Canada’s Parliament, possibly ISIS-related.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/22/world/americas/canada-ottawa-shooting/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
Nina Pham’s dog has tested negative for Ebola.
http://www.hlntv.com/article/2014/10/22/bentley-Ebola-dog-negative-nina-pham?hpt=hp_t2
As a pet owner, thanks for that bit of good news. Too bad the officials in Spain didn’t take the same care with that nurse’s dog.
Another person jumped the White House fence last night. Something needs to be done about that.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/22/politics/white-house-fence-jumper/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
Sounds like hatchet man may have been inspired by ISIS. He had jihadist stuff on his Facebook page.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/24/us/new-york-hatchet-islamist-suspicions/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
New Ebola case in US. NYC doctor has Ebola. He had recently returned from Guinea.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/24/health/new-york-ebola-case/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
I think these healthcare people working there need to go through self-quarantine there for the 21 day period before coming home.
Definitely agree Pragmatic.