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The Only Thing Democrats Have to Offer is Fear Itself
Townhall.com ^ | November 1, 2021 | Jeff Crouere

Posted on 11/01/2021 3:36:31 AM PDT by Kaslin

On Sunday, a shocking new NBC Newspollwas announced by Chuck Todd, anchor ofMeet the Press.It showed that 71% of Americans believe the country is on the “wrong track” and only 22% believe it is moving in the right direction.

These are horrible numbers for the Biden administration and Democrats who control both Congress and the White House. The NBC newspollalso showed that Republicans were trusted over Democrats by more than double digit margins in a wide range of areas such as handling the economy, inflation, crime, national security, border security, and “getting things done.”

These results reflect the reality of what the Democrats have done in the first ten months of the Biden administration. In certain respects, the disastrous Biden agenda is destroying the country. For example, a secure southern border has turned into a disaster as millions of people have poured into our country, with an untold number having serious health problems.

The previously strong economy is cratering with raging inflation, empty store shelves, skyrocketing gasoline prices and a surging labor shortage for small businesses.

Crime is escalating in our major urban areas that are facing a shortage of police officers. This crisis will explode since COVID-19 vaccine mandates will force more officers to leave understaffed police departments.

In the arena of national security, Americans will not soon forget the debacle in Afghanistan that cost the lives of thirteen military service members. Just last week it wasreportedby the Defense Department that over 400 Americans remain in Afghanistan, much higher than the administration’s previous estimates.

While problems are escalating, the Biden administration is accomplishing nothing of importance to Americans. There is no action on the border or the economy that will improve the situation in the short term. Administration officials tell weary Americans that empty shelves and higher prices are here to stay.

In contrast to action on pressing needs, the President yells at Americans to get vaccinated. He turns every problem into a call for more vaccinations. He continually spreads the fear of COVID-19 as he pressures vaccine hesitant Americans to do something against their beliefs or values.

To coerce these Americans, Biden has decreed vaccine mandates. Since fear of the virus did not work, he wants to use economic fear to force Americans to comply. These tactics are both un-American and unconstitutional. Vaccines should be available and offered to anyone who wants to take them. There should be no vaccine mandates for adults, and especially not for children.

The new battleground has become our public schools. More parents are upset with the curriculum, the ridiculous mask mandates, and the upcoming push to inject children with a vaccine for a virus that is almost no threat to them. As parents ramped up their involvement, the Attorney General issued his infamous letter threatening them for exercising their First Amendment rights.

The President also offers fear of climate change as his rationale for trying to destroy the oil and gas industry. His decisions to shut down the Keystone XL pipeline and place a moratorium on new federal drilling leases contributed to the soaring gasoline prices now threatening the economic well being of millions of Americans.

Today, Biden arrives in Glasgow, Scotland to show solidarity with the climate change movement. He wants Americans to view climate change as the greatest problem the nation is facing.

Despite the fear mongering from Democrats, Americans do not view climate change as the greatest problem facing the country. A recentpollshows that only Democrats considered it a “major threat.”

Today, Americans want to enjoy their freedom, a secure border, safe streets, inflation under control, and gasoline prices to decline. In addition, Americans do not want debacles such as our military withdrawal from Afghanistan to threaten our national security. Sadly, this inept administration is uninterested in managing any of these critical issues. Instead, climate change and vaccine mandates remain the top priorities, regardless of the polls.

Currently, congressional Democrats are debating bills that relate to climate change. Both the infrastructure bill and the “Build Back Better” bill are rife with climate change initiatives.

These Democrats will determine whether the country will waste $3 trillion or $6 trillion on these proposals while massively increasing taxes and sending an army of new Internal Revenue Service agents to spy on Americans and extract more of their limited income.

The surveillance state was a hallmark of the East German communists who encouraged their citizens to spy on one another. Fear was the tactic used effectively to keep the citizenry in line with the disastrous policies that did not work at anything but increasing the power and scope of the government.

Similarly, in our country, Biden is offering fear and more surveillance to keep our citizens in line. In response, Americans are becoming disgusted with this agenda. It is one of the reasons why the chant “Let’s Go Brandon,” has become so popular in the halls of Congress and at athletic events across the country.

Americans are not happy with an administration that ignores their real needs while pushing an agenda that is unworkable and is only going to increase government power at the expense of the liberty of the American people. Biden claims that his policies will make us safer, but as Benjamin Franklin famously said, “Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

Americans must continue to exercise our free speech rights to oppose this agenda of fear. As Franklin also accurately noted, “Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins.”

When Americans oppose this fear agenda, we are not only fighting for our rights, but we are also fighting to save the country from tyranny. Thus, it is not repulsive, but righteous, to say, “Let’s Go Brandon.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anthonyfauci; chucktodd; covidstooges; deathofthewest; defundnpr; defundpbs; g20; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; meetthepress; nbc; npr; obamacare; panicporn; pbs; repeatthemess; vaccinemandates

1 posted on 11/01/2021 3:36:31 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Vaccine mandates have not been ruled unconstitutional. In fact the Supremes have ruled, I believe three times, (Indiana University, State of Maine and I believe there was a third) now that they are in fact totally legit.


2 posted on 11/01/2021 3:42:54 AM PDT by redangus
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To: Kaslin

I recently watched Mel Gibson’s “Apocalypto”. I thought it was a good movie. One of the Elders gives his son the following speech after they are both confronted by a group of natives that are fleeing their lands that have been taken by the Aztecs.

“Fear. Deep rotting fear. They were infected by it. Did you see? Fear is a sickness. It will crawl into the soul of anyone who engages it. It has tainted your peace already. I did not raise you to see you live with fear. Strike it from your heart. Do not bring it into the village.”

That evening they just sit around the campfire telling stories. They should have been preparing. (See my tagline).


3 posted on 11/01/2021 3:49:25 AM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: Kaslin

They got nothin I want.


4 posted on 11/01/2021 3:53:19 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: redangus
Vaccine mandates have not been ruled unconstitutional. In fact the Supremes have ruled, I believe three times, (Indiana University, State of Maine and I believe there was a third) now that they are in fact totally legit.

There ought to be a requirement for the Supreme Court to cite a specific section -- a specific sentence -- in the Constitution that allows the federal government to take some action.

As an example: "The government can force citizens to submit to medical experiments at any time."

The only problem is that there is no such sentence in the Constitution. But I guess the Supreme Court doesn't care.

5 posted on 11/01/2021 3:54:45 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Alec Baldwin has killed more people than the Jan 6 protesters. And he will serve less jail time.)
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To: redangus

I think that the fraudulent rational for vaccine mandates will unravel this winter as the virus spreads among the vaccinated in blue states. The unwarranted punishment meted out to the unvaccinated will produce a backlash against F Joe.

ps

F Joe incorrectly thinks that all unvaccinated are Trump supporting lepers. In reality, resistance to the vax crosses ideological boundaries.


6 posted on 11/01/2021 4:00:34 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul (s)
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To: Kaslin

The left is determined to cement their control over us. They do not care about the polls or losing Virginia.

They have openly called for policies (domestic and foreign) that will prevent a future conservative from rolling back communism.

This is documented today on FR in two articles. One about the infrastructure bill and the other about the G20.

Once again, we are celebrating some bad poll numbers while the left is enacting permanent control.


7 posted on 11/01/2021 4:43:52 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (We are being played by forces most do not understand)
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To: Kaslin; SunkenCiv; Liz; LS; Red Badger; BenLurkin; MHGinTN; Tax-chick; Monkey Face

FDR: The only thing we need to fear is fear itself.
Biden: The only thing I need to offer is fear itself.
Fauci: The only thing I have to offer is fear itself.
Soros: The only thing I fear is freedom itself.


8 posted on 11/01/2021 4:56:50 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: Kaslin

We are lead by by a Regime that hates us and intends to end the USA because they see it as the source of all evil. The intend to install communism and total control over all who they allow to live after the coming purges.


9 posted on 11/01/2021 5:24:30 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: Erik Latranyi

Well said, but they don’t intend to lose Virginia. A fair election is their enemy and they intend to fraud as much as necessary to get the official outcome they want.


10 posted on 11/01/2021 5:27:34 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: Truth29

The only way to rid America of the tyrants is to rid America of the tyrants

McAwful will be a good start


11 posted on 11/01/2021 5:32:45 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Like BLM, Joe Biden is a Domestic Enemy )
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To: Kaslin

There are three simple fixes available to individuals.

First, eliminate the mainstream media. This can be advanced by supporting the alternatives and cutting off any financial support to the msm. Cut the cable. Avoid social media. Starve this beast.

Second, stop supporting public education. (It is not different in your community, it’s toxic everywhere.) Unless you want to be a tax rebel, you will still have to pay school taxes, in which case show up and complain, get involved. But at the very least, get the kids out of public school and urge parents everywhere to consider alternatives.

Third — maybe — in one year, the midterm election will happen. You can vote. You can hope. That’s probably not enough anymore. Offer your services at the polls.

To sum up, clean up and step up. That’s all an individual can do and if it seems feeble, it’s only because very few individuals actually do it. Your two cents matters, maybe more than your vote — and they can’t steal your two cents.

In good times we can shirk our civic responsibility, but these are not good times. Do something before the shooting starts. Shooting is much, much harder.


12 posted on 11/01/2021 5:52:21 AM PDT by Buttons12 ( )
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To: Kaslin
"The Only Thing Democrats Have to Offer is Fear Itself"

Fear and every evil ever devised by man or the devil!

The Party of Hate and Evil--viz. the Democrat Party--has always championed every evil ever devised--from slavery, racism, Jim Crow laws, segregation, lynching, and the ku klux klan--to lawlessness, totalitarianism, intolerance, racism, mendacity, propaganda, drug abuse, abortion, injustice, violence, hatred, and every form of evil every imagined.

The Democrat Party has never deviated from the Hate and Evil that have always darkened this evil organisation--the closest thing to Nazi Germany as exists in the world today.

13 posted on 11/01/2021 6:18:31 AM PDT by Savage Beast (The woke generation has taken liberty, justice, tolerance and universal brotherhood to their nemesis)
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To: ClearCase_guy

there ought to be a requirement for the Supreme Court to cite a specific section -— in the Constitution that allows the federal government to take some action.........

From what I’ve read this was done about 1905 for the smallpox vaccine. The recent decisions just use 1905 for precedent so constitutional rights don’t come into play.

The 1905 decision was also based on the facts that the smallpox vaccine was safe, effective, and smallpox had a 30% fatality rate. None of these facts apply today.

If these stupid lawyers want to win they need to concentrate on the differences between the 1905 situation and the current one.


14 posted on 11/01/2021 7:00:39 AM PDT by Ceebass (USA RIP 1776-2021)
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To: Ceebass

I would toss in the notion that we place too much emphasis on precedent.

If court makes a mistake — declares that Jews aren’t really human and we can just kill ‘em ... well, that’s precedent, isn’t it? Can’t change it. I guess we’ll be killin’ Jews for centuries to come.

More bluntly: the 1905 smallpox decision has no basis in the Constitution. It was wrong in 1905. It’s wrong today. We should not use it as a basis for any current or future decisions.

Roe v Wade, same thing.

The court got Plessy v Ferguson wrong, then responded decades later with Brown v Board of Education. That’s a better model than just following precedent. We need to constantly strive to get back to what the Constitution truly says.


15 posted on 11/01/2021 7:10:09 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Alec Baldwin has killed more people than the Jan 6 protesters. And he will serve less jail time.)
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To: Truth29
Well said, but they don’t intend to lose Virginia. A fair election is their enemy and they intend to fraud as much as necessary to get the official outcome they want.

Ask yourself this:

If you had the fraud in place, but it was not firmly entrenched yet, would you use that fraud to hold a single state that you can take back in 4 years or would you use that fraud to hold the Senate ensuring the deep state keeps getting filled with those loyal to the Politburo?

They might sacrifice Virginia so nobody looks into voting irregularities before the mid-terms. They are sure to lose the House in 2022, but if they can hold the Senate, then they can continue their march forward.

Look at what was just said at the G20....we need to enact treaties and agreements that cannot be undone if someone like Trump is elected again. To do that, they need the Senate, not the Virginia governorship.

16 posted on 11/01/2021 8:03:34 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (We are being played by forces most do not understand)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

McAULIFFE has never hidden his aspirations for high office. One reason he did a practice run.....nationalizing the guv race bringing in no accounts like Abrams, Harris, Biden, to amp up his creds.

He loses Tues, he loses his ntl standing.

17 posted on 11/01/2021 8:38:20 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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