The power of fear and hatred
The hate machine in the States
Fear-of-everything-all-the-time
It saturates the media/radio day after day after day. It doesn’t only have an impact in the States. It has no boundaries...with the Internet, satellite tv/radio and so on....it just spread like a virus....wherever you are.
I know that many people dismiss the damage it does, Limbaugh is just a comedian, rodeo clown Beck......how can anyone take them seriously...just to name those two.
I’ve been witnessing what it can do to a person, ....the damage it does if the person buy into that garbage, when fear sets in.....being sucked into a downward spiral.
A very close friend of mine. I have known that man for over 30 years. I’m 49, he’s 51.. He is Canadian like me, we were from the same neighborhood. If I can describe him briefly, he is probably the nicest person I know, intelligent, giving, friendly, funny...an all around good guy, a great friend.
It was fun for me to discuss politics with him,... he didn’t follow politics as closely as I did/do but it interested him. He just had to ask me: so what’s going in the States?...and I was on a roll.
Like me, he was very grateful when Barack Obama was elected president. I used to send him links of speeches that I thought would interest him, or articles... and we would discuss them. Very interesting, lively discussions.
And then something happened....a complete turnaround
One day...out of the blue...he called me and asked me to write something down, to go check something online...I said sure, of course, what is it?
He said to me: write that down....Barry Soetoro.
I started to laugh. I said to him: Yes it’s Barack Obama, I know his life story, what’s the joke here?
He replied.....’’he’s a big fraud you know. There’s so much you don’t know’’.
I was in shock; there was no way he was buying into that crap. NOT HIM, he’s highly educated, he has a great job, he loves to travel, he has a very active social life, and so on...No way, not him......
Little that I knew, it was only the tip of the iceberg. It just went downhill after that.
Every conversation we had after that, either in person or on the phone became more and more frustrating for me because whatever he had to say became crazier and crazier.
One America with no borders, global fascist police, concentration camps in the States, Obama was a fraud, a puppet, and so on. He would destroy the States, ....it didn’t stop....
He was telling me that as a Canadian I should be very worry because we are just next door. He told me as well that he would take his money out of the bank and invest in gold, that I should do the same.
I could recognize a mix of Alex Jones, Savage, Hannity, Beck......I knew all that stuff, it’s everywhere, it’s difficult to avoid it but I never validate anything they have to say, it’s pure filth, garbage, They are just fear mongers to me. I could have debunked anything he had to say but he didn’t want to hear it , for him, I was blinded, I had rosy glasses on, I didn’t know the truth. I definitely don't have rosy glasses when it comes to politics, but I like facts, not fiction.
It was like trying to have a conversation with Chris Matthews or Bill O’Reilly, interruption after interruption after interruption.
He was never ever like that before. Never. His personality changed drastically. If I knew that man for 6 months, well I would have said...I didn’t really know him....but 30 years?
He was so much fun, always in a good mood no matter what, such a nice personality, very polite...now he is depressing to no end, he lives in fear...fear-of-everything-all-the-time.....we hardly talk anymore.
I have to admit that if I didn’t follow politics closely, he would have scared the hell out of me over and over again, I would be living in fear like him. I have never seen anything like this, ever....such a drastic change of personality...it’s sad.