Ben Carson may be the quiet and low-key candidate, but the quietness belies a danger many people are apparently not picking up on. Soft-spoken extremism is even more dangerous than the brash kind. He can say the most outrageous things but because it's delivered so softly, most people miss the threat. It's this soft threat that needs to be exposed and to make people aware of it.
While it may true that the squeaky wheel gets the grease, sometimes it’s the squeak you don’t hear that causes the most problems. A case in point would be Donald Trump and Ben Carson. While Trump would obviously be the squeaky wheel who gets the most grease or media attention in this case, it’s Carson who seems to slide right through things with little attention paid to him. It’s here that the greatest problems could occur.
Everyone recognizes Trump as the bombastic buffoon who shoots from the lip. Making the most outrageous comments, he’s out; front and center, where everyone can see him and all can hear him. We pretty much know what he is and where he’s coming from.
Ben Carson is dangerously different. People refer to him as soft-spoken, low-key and even tempered. But it is here where the danger lies. He too has made some of the most strident comments yet he doesn’t get the same looks that Trump would. Why?
Among Carson’s off the wall comments are that he compared America to Nazi Germany, he equated slavery with health care and Muslims shouldn’t be president. His latest comments are that the Biblical Joseph supposedly built the Pyramids. This is so wrong on so many different levels it would take a separate article itself to explain them all. Suffice it to say that the Pyramids were built 3,000 years before Joseph. On what does he base this delusional fantasy?
Soft-spoken extremism is more dangerous than the brash version. Because the comments are delivered in a soft, even tempered voice, it makes them appear almost rational and non-threatening. Thus, he can say almost anything and sound perfectly reasonable-and-he’s getting away with it. We’ll see what kind of blow-back, if any, he gets from the Pyramids comments. This is a guy who is patently lying through his teeth and people are buying it, all because on how the message is delivered.
Worse yet, he may actually believe his comments are accurate. Ben Carson can believe in whatever he wants to. He can believe that Elvis is still alive or that we’ve never landed on the moon. But when he starts saying these beliefs are real, we have a problem. If you take faith and try to turn it into fact, that’s another problem.
He may believe things with all his heart and soul but he’s still wrong. If I told someone if you touch a hot stove, you’ll burn your hand and they say I don’t believe it, I don’t care. But touch the hot stove and see what happens. In the same way, it doesn’t matter what he thinks or says, because it doesn’t change the fact that he’s still wrong.
A recent poll came out that said Hillary and Carson were tied at 47% apiece in a national election. I put little to no stock in this survey. Why, because people really don’t know who Carson is or what he stands for. People know who Hillary is. They know who Trump and Bush are but not Carson.
The next time someone says Carson is low-key or quiet tell them; did you also know that he thinks America is like Nazi Germany? That the health care for your child is just like slavery? That the Egyptians didn't build the Pyramids? Let’s see what the polls look like after a few weeks of this.
Carson’s extremist comments must be brought out for everyone to see and hear. Once they hear them, the leaves won’t be the only things falling this year. He needs to be told while you may be entitled to your own opinions you’re not entitled to your own facts.