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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThere are two types of fear.
Good fear and bad fear.
Good fear stops you from walking out in front of a bus. We could not survive without the good fear.
The bad fear is when you imagine there are buses coming at you from every direction. As you react to the imaginary buses you get run over by the real bus.
Trump voters suffer from the bad fear. Thats why they don't make sense. Thats why they voted for trump. Its why they vote against their best interests.
The bad fear makes millions of trump voters who belong to unions vote to destroy unions and workers rights.
It makes millions of Trump voters who have Obamacare vote to destroy Obamacare. Some of them may die. Their vote may kill them.
They spend their time chasing imaginary buses like, Obama wasn't born here, Clinton is a crook, The boogieman is coming to take all their guns away. Immigrants are taking all our jobs, they are criminals. The list is long.
Trump voters are destroying their way of life because they suffer from the bad fear and they are taking us down with them.
RKP5637
(67,088 posts)FM123
(10,053 posts)KT2000
(20,568 posts)Fear is what propagandists use to control people. Using fear is what the RW is all about -FOX, Bannon, InfoWars, Neo Nazis, Alt-tight, etc.
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,664 posts)Well described. I'm adding this to my list. Thanks.
Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)raven mad
(4,940 posts)Dune. Frank Herbert.
Efilroft Sul
(3,578 posts)And yet, they are the biggest chickenshits around.
hwmnbn
(4,279 posts)logosoco
(3,208 posts)I know when my mind starts thinking "fear" (the bad kind!) I do not think as clear or as well as I should!
And lets not forget what that amazing Democrat president said so many years ago and has taken on new meaning in light of the "fears" tRump supporters have "We have nothing to fear but fear itself"!!
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,961 posts)Irish_Dem
(46,521 posts)Reality based fears can be productive in that a person takes appropriate action to ensure safety.
Manufactured fears, irrational ones can be unproductive and crippling. Because there is no real problem, there is no solution. Propaganda which is fear based with manufactured problems act as a way to control the population and install draconian measures.