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LittleBlue

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15. Here is why

Reply to AZ Progressive (Original post)

Thu Dec 10, 2015, 04:37 PM

Dec 2015

Shooting happens at an abortion clinic. 80% of Americans assume they won't be near an abortion clinic. Shooting happens in poor neighborhood, most Americans rationalize by assuming they won't be in a slum anyway.

Terrorist attacks can happen to anyone anywhere. It's completely random. There is no way to avoid it, at least in the minds of people. So everyone feels like a potential target.

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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