Reply #24: Here we go again with the same crap that was said when Clinton faced daily attacks and the media

[mrcheerful]

hounded him for not living up to the promises he made before he was elected. This is a well known R tactic that started with Clintons election, wear the Democratic voters down by making attacks on anything Clinton said or done leaving the voters who voted for Clinton stuck in the position of defending Clinton, it works because the voters only hear what their candidate hasn't done and very little of what he has done or why his policies didn't go far enough to do much good. Why? Because by feeding the voter limited information then telling them the candidate hasn't lived up to what he promised while refusing to inform the people what he has done and how it effects them.

As we see on DU we got folks ranting and raving Obama has done to little or nothing at all, when facts say that he has done a lot more in less then 2 years and with the current right tilt the countries been pushed since 1980 these things the left to center folks don't get that to push harder will only have the opposite effect, the middle ground voter will dig in their heels and turn more right especially after being spoon fed daily dose's of fear, fear of brown people, fear of Muslims, fear of terror attacks, fear of anything different then what they see as normal, loss of job, illness, home foreclosure.

We are seeing signs of that all around us, fearful people turn to god and arm themselves, America is a powder keg waiting for a spark, we on the left don't respond to fear but centrist's and wing nuts are working with emotions and not a clear head, they see boogie men behind every bush and they are paranoid, push them to the left with sweeping change and who knows what they will do, these people are crazy with fear. It doesn't matter if its irrational fear, fear is neither good or bad it's just another feeling humans have, but, when everything around you causes fear, then add change on top of that your asking for a fight.

I was watching Moores Columbine movie last night and it brought back all of the fear I was seeing in the 90's and back then I watched how fast after the Reagan failure how quickly folks turned on Democratic candidates and voted the R's in, we saw how well the R's ran the country from that point on.