The Crisis Industry: How Activists Profit from Panic

Youtube.com ^ | 10/29/2024 | John Stossel

[Pol-92064]

Pollution, homophobia, racism, hate; activists claim everything is getting worse.

[Pol-92064]

The sky is always falling for money grabbing activists.

[ClearCase_guy]

The people who want to control us, want us to live in fear of everything. It is essential to their scheme.

[epluribus_2]

Psst, IT’S THE RADICAL POLICIES causing everything to be a crisis. By Design or Incompetance or both.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

The purpose of a politician is to keep the public frightened of an imaginary booger man that only the politician can protect you from.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Psst, IT’S THE RADICAL POLICIES causing everything to be a crisis. By Design or Incompetance or both.

Psst, IT’S THE RADICAL POLICIES causing everything to be a crisis. By Design or Incompetence or both.

[crosdaddy]

It’s snot a “booger” man, it’s a boogie man.🐽

[Rowdyone]

Fear can be a healthy motivator. But there is a difference between reasonable and unreasonable fear. Reasonable fear is a self preservation motivator. Unreasonable fear alows others to control you.

[Hiddigeigei]

"The purpose of a politician is to keep the public frightened of an imaginary booger man that only the politician can protect you from."
“...the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” --- H. L. Mencken, In Defense Of Women.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Hundreds of years of calling it a “booger man” works for me.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

You are correct. I simply rewrote it to make it easier to remember.

[cgbg]

We also see a lot of crazy headlines that either are not suppported by the text in the article or have very little to do with the article at all.

The “headline” itself creates the phony crisis.

The most common example is of the form “X is happening in the state of Y”.

In fact there is one incident affecting five people in California—or something dumb like that.

It had zero effect on 99.99% of the people of California.