I have been watching the Teapublican clown show too much, I think but I am seeing something that may not be new to others but has struck me as a reason to have nightmares at night.
So, at the False Values gathering today Michelle Bachman declares war on Islam. Several days ago Lindsey Graham is screaming if we don’t go to war ISIL is going to come and kill us all. Louie Gohmert freaked out about Ebola coming over the border from Mexico.
Others are sure ISIL is coming over the Mexican Border. The Christian Right is sure homosexuals are going to get Pedophilia legalized. Each day another fear another fright fest.
As I listen to all this, I wonder, ARE THEY SERIOUS??? Or, are they just using this rhetoric to scare people as a form of manipulation? Unfortunately I think some of these people are ignorant enough and scared enough to be serious. If that is the case, should any of them be in office instead of on a psychiatrist’s couch. Do we want people who are so afraid making their decisions out of panic instead of out of strength?
I do not understand adults that are so freaked out by so much. Did this fear start because of the Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld manipulations so they could have a war to line their pockets with? Did they so frighten a certain part of our population that they have lost all perspective on what is reality and what is fear mongering? Or are these people so malleable that they can be manipulated into any fearful ideas that certain people wish to use to control them for their own less than honorable purposes.
Or, are these people just pulling our legs using the same tactics that Bushneyfeld used to try to manipulate their constituents into not voting in their own best interests. Hey, it worked for several years when Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld used them so maybe it will work for them? Somehow, for many of them, I think this is too subtle of a thought pattern.
So, I am back to scared little people that are deciding our laws and I don’t like that thought either. Do we really want lawmakers that are checking for the monsters under their beds before they go to sleep?