Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member Latest Breaking News Editorials & Other Articles General Discussion The DU Lounge All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

General Discussion

AZ Progressive

(3,411 posts) Thu Dec 10, 2015, 03:08 PM Dec 2015

Why are Americans so worried about terrorism, possibly enough to vote against their financial interests, when... [View all]

terrorism doesn't even kill as many people as domestic mass shootings, car accidents, and hospital errors? I mean, it's silly to be apathetic to all the death that happens in society and yet be hyper sensitized to "Islamic terrorism."

It seems to me that Americans are still letting the media and political leaders dictate what they should fear.

32 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

Why are Americans so worried about terrorism, possibly enough to vote against their financial interests, when... [View all] AZ Progressive Dec 2015 OP

Terrorism is an added threat to what you listed upaloopa Dec 2015 #1

The Bigger the Lie, and the More it is Repeated, the More that truedelphi Dec 2015 #2

People figure you can have all the money in the world but if you get caught yeoman6987 Dec 2015 #8

Your more likely to be gunned down in a domestic mass shooting than in an Islamic Terror attack AZ Progressive Dec 2015 #11

Yeah yeah and you can fall off a ladder. Doesn't mean terrorism isn't real yeoman6987 Dec 2015 #12

But you'd sacrifice your other interests for a threat that is not as big as it appears to be AZ Progressive Dec 2015 #14

As long as it stay itty bitty, but I suspect they are growing not shrinking. yeoman6987 Dec 2015 #16

Imagine if there was the same uproar for all these other causes of death in America. The people AZ Progressive Dec 2015 #17

Not even in the same stratosphere yeoman6987 Dec 2015 #19

The people are much more likely to vote in a president that would deal with terrorism than... AZ Progressive Dec 2015 #20

Well that is true which is why the democratic nominee whomever it is yeoman6987 Dec 2015 #22

Sure terrorism can be real. truedelphi Dec 2015 #30

Not me, I am way more afraid of poverty than I am of death. smirkymonkey Dec 2015 #21

Same here. Death holds no terrors for me. hifiguy Dec 2015 #23

It's not that different from freaking out about mass shootings, frankly. Lizzie Poppet Dec 2015 #3

This times a million. nt B2G Dec 2015 #6

It's Whiz Bang. Ron Green Dec 2015 #4

Americans NEED enemies. Maedhros Dec 2015 #5

Damn Skippy! nt MrScorpio Dec 2015 #7

The enemies have come to us yeoman6987 Dec 2015 #9

Bang. Spot on. hifiguy Dec 2015 #25

Bingo. If it was really about fear of bodily harm terrorism is way, way, way down on the list. But GoneFishin Dec 2015 #27

Of course, part of the reason that they don't bother to do the math truedelphi Dec 2015 #31

when the teevee is on during most waking hours and it's screaming terror...people are terrorized spanone Dec 2015 #10

It's a common cognitive distortion. Nt JudyM Dec 2015 #13

Here is why LittleBlue Dec 2015 #15

Same thing with mass shootings, yet we do nothing about them AZ Progressive Dec 2015 #18

media coverage instagram and other things JI7 Dec 2015 #24

Teh Stooopid. nt valerief Dec 2015 #26

The gd f----g media. Remember the last election when we lost so many seats. doc03 Dec 2015 #28

Many of them are insane paranoids. Ed Suspicious Dec 2015 #29

Terrorism has tail risk Angel Martin Dec 2015 #32