Darksyde and
SusanG get it. The Republicans have beat us over the head for the last five years with their recurrent themes of terror and fear. Now is the time to respond, and the response is simply this:
Democrats refuse to be afraid. We are not imprudent. We stand our ground, but we will not be afraid. Republicans may snivel like the cowards they are, but Democrats will not fear. We refuse to debase ourselves by trying to make Americans afraid. We Americans are the people that defeated Nazi Germany and stood down the Soviet Union for 70 years. We refuse to live in fear. We choose to be free in the face of the menaces of terrorists. Terrorists cannot terrorize someone who will not be afraid.
Last week, I watched Tucker Carlson carelessly throw around the Republican talking point that only conservatives can make us safe. He pointed to the thwarting of the trans-Atlantic terrorist threat as proof positive that conservatives alone are capable of keeping America safe.
Give me a break.
The Labor Party governs the United Kingdom. The Labor Party is the center-left party of Great Britain. They would be Democrats if they were US citizens. British liberals successfully foiled a massive terrorist plot. The Torries are out-of-power, and they had nothing to do with the victory over the terrorists.
But if the Republicans wish to push this talking point, let us reflect on what happened on September 11, 2001, eight months into the current abortion of an American presidency. Does anyone really believe that if Bill Clinton had had the August 6, 2001 presidential daily briefing in his lap that Osama bin Ladin would have accomplished the acts he perpetrated on 9/11? In point of fact, American conservatives totally screwed up in the prevention of 9/11.
Let me figure this out. The evidence is not statistically significant or anything, but I would hazard the guess that liberals are better at preventing terrorism than conservatives are.
You sniveling Republicans cower and try to make us afraid. We Democrats harken to the cry of our national Revolution:
Live free or die.
We are not afraid.