Are you scared yet?
If you are a liberal, a Democrat or a sensible moderate independent, this ad probably won’t scare you. Good for you for being able to see through Rudolph Giuliani’s cravenly manipulative attempt to terrify dim-witted folks into voting for him.
But even if you are a wise consumer of this sort of propaganda, this ad should scare you nonetheless — because it probably will be effective in scaring the votes out of the terror-addicted Republican base, who have been softened up by the terror politics of Bush and Rove since September 2001, and are now fully converted into what may be America’s first generation of cowards — rivaling in the inverse the Greatest Generation that fought World War II.
Republican pols like Bush and Giuliani depend on the fact that when people are terrified they don’t think rationally. Like drug pushers in the bad old days, the neocon-nationalist wing of the GOP has fed Wal-Mart shoppers,” “security moms,” “NASCAR dads” and their other key voter demos a steady diet of fear and now millions of them are completely hooked on terror.
The more consumed they are by fear, the less they notice that the same politicians who routinely scare the bejeebus out of them are simultaneously sending their jobs overseas, forking over billions of their tax dollars to giant corporations and fomenting the decline of democracy in favor of Mexican-style oligarchy and even fascism.
It worked in 2004, and there is no reason to believe it won’t work in 2008.
So… Are you scared yet?
I don’t think the terror gambit will work, at least not as well as it did in the past. I don’t see people running around afraid; I think people are pretty jaded to it, even chicken little republicans. Now, if some bogus new terrorist act flares up, well then, that would be gold for rudy, wouldn’t it?
When did Republicans become such scared little people?
I am an AMERICAN. I believe in “Live Free or DIE!”
I refuse to be afraid, and I will never understand my Countrymen, and women, who say “Please Mr. Bush, please Mr. Guiliani, take away my Constitutional Rights,do what you have to do, just protect me from the scary brown people!”
What scared me was the expression on Giuliani’s face at the end - kind of like a confident psychopath. What a nasty piece of work he is.
Tested? Can someone tell me just how he’s ‘tested’ as an international leader against terrorism. Last I checked, he was a prosecutor (lawyer) and a mayor of a city that was attacked (not defended / just attacked). Neither of which shows an ounce of prevention.
See “Freedom Over Fear” by A. M. G. Solo based on the writer’s conversations with Republicans:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_ashu_m___071204_freedom_over_fear.htm
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