[firebrand]

As Herman Cain’s grandfather might say, “I’ll show ya mass hysteria!”

[A message]

Liberal projection.

Leftists are so predictable.

[Slyfox]

This article reminded me of something I experienced once.

I was at the Fort Worth Convention Center being a participant of the State of Texas Republican Party convention. I saw a reporter from the Dallas Morning News and I approached him and introduced myself. I can't remember his name but he was a good reporter known for being very fair in his articles.

During our conversation I asked him if he had attended the Democratic convention at the same venue two weeks previous, he said yes. I asked him what that was like and he said:

"Do you see all of these people here? (referring to all the Republicans walking around) Well, these look like regular folks you see when you go to the bank, or the grocery store or anywhere. That bunch that showed up two weeks ago look nothing like these people. Every weirdo made it to that event."

So, as much as the progressive-left tries to paint us as the weird ones it is not true. And they know it.

[rdcbn]

This is the kind of pseudo science that the Nazis used to justify their policies in 1930’s Germany.

[ExCTCitizen]

Salon: Making the Onion look like a serious newspaper.

[Free Vulcan]

Sounds like Salon just had their Reefer Madness moment.

[Flick Lives]

Hibbing is a political scientist at the University of Nebraska

Political Science is like the short-bus of the Sciences.

[publius911]

Salon: Conservative brains wired for “mass hysteria” and “folk devils”

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

OK

[Gumdrop]

Oh? So what happened in 2008 when a candidate for POTUS claimed to be “the One’, claimed that it was the moment for the level of the oceans to fall, etc..

Seems to me our country has been living in a perpetual “Mass Hysteria” mode for nearly 6 years now - and it is not Christian Conservatives who are implicated.

[ek_hornbeck]

Conservative fears of nonexistent or overblown boogeymen — Saddam’s WMD, Shariah law, voter fraud, Obama’s radical anti-colonial mind-set, Benghazi, etc. — make it hard not to see conservatism’s prudent risk avoidance as having morphed into a state of near permanent paranoia, especially fueled by recurrent “moral panics,” a sociological phenomenon in which a group of “social entrepreneurs” whips up hysterical fears over a group of relatively powerless “folk devils” who are supposedly threatening the whole social order. Given that conservatism seems to be part of human nature — just as liberalism is — we’re going to need all the help we can get in figuring out how to live with it, without being dominated, controlled and crippled by it.

What about non-existent or overblown bogeymen that plague the Leftist mind? Every bout of bad weather is a harbinger of the "global warming" apocalypse. Every politically incorrect joke or remark is evidence that the US is on the brink of a takeover by the Ku Klux Klan or by neo-nazis, and that the entire population must be deconditioned of racism, sexism, and homophobia. Every corporate board meeting or slightest cut/adjustment to government entitlements is clearly evidence of a grand conspiracy to "oppress" minorities and the poor.

Seems to me that liberals no strangers to mass end-is-nigh hysteria and absurd conspiracy theories themselves.