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guillaumeb

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52. and we must speak truth to the fearful, to paraphrase.

Tue Mar 31, 2015, 01:50 PM

Mar 2015

The GOP has been running on fear since 1968.
Fear of blacks was one of the cornerstones of Nixon's two campaigns. This fear was also used by Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. We all remember Reagan's constant references to welfare queens, the fact that he started his campaign at a site in Neshoba County. The same county where Civil Rights workers Goodman, Shwerner, and Chaney were murdered.

When the GOP does not use fear of blacks, they use fear of Mexicans, Chinese, Arabs, Muslims, LGBT people, union members, and others.

They use fear to divide. And it works. It works because of ignorance. People are ignorant of their common interests.

They also control the media, obviously, and the schools by controlling the companies that print the textbooks.

When you spoke of democracy surviving, how can it survive and thrive when the 1% can buy enough politicians to rewrite our laws?

That said, fantastic post.

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