Posted on 01/17/2017 9:10:01 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Donald Trump has yet to be inaugurated, he has yet to make any specific proposals for legislation, has yet to issue any executive orders, and has yet to even comment on many of the cultural issues that divide America.
That lack of specificity has played directly into the hands of his opponents on the left. Into the void, the left has substituted mass hysteria about what Trump might do rather than reasoned argument against the positions he took during the campaign.
As a political tactic, generating mass hysteria against an opponent has been wildly successful in history. The two largest purveyors of mass hysteria – Nazi Germany and Communist Russia – used the ploy to convince large majorities of their populations of a clear and present danger in society, be it the Jews or "counterrevolutionaries." In this, they were ably aided by a captive media, where the state controlled all information disseminated to the public.
The left in America doesn't have that luxury – at least, not officially. But there is little doubt that their attempts to massively exaggerate the danger of a Trump presidency to certain minority groups has found a mainstream media compliant, even eager in their efforts to conciously aid in spreading propaganda, hyperbole, even lies in the cause of opposing Trump.
How is the left's campaign to convince large numbers of people that their freedoms, even their lives are in danger going?
Not bad at all.
Huffington Post asked 14 women who never participated in a demonstration before why they were going to take part in the Women's March on Washington later this week. Here are some of the answers:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
People aren’t stupid, when every single person in the media and all the Dems HEADS ARE LITERALLY EXPLODING, the people see their heads exploding - not a good look for people who want to regain the confidence of Americans.
bkmk
“I remember holding up a big sign with all these photoshopped images of dead fetuses.”
Riiiiight, because pro-lifers have to “photoshop” images of dead fetuses. Because real images of dead fetuses are simply not shocking enough....
btw, by calling them “dead fetuses”, she acknowledges that they were alive, and therefore, that abortion takes human life. So she is implicitly acknowledging that abortion is murder.
“This election has brought out a fierceness in me that I didn’t know I had, mostly because of my children and my health. My kids are biracial (Korean and white) and are being raised in a small, mostly Republican farm community.”
Silly rabbit, your kids don’t count as “biracial” to the lefties if they are white and asian. Check your privilege!
Bookmark. This is a great list.
I can’t help but notice that the mass hysteria
of the Communist Chinese wasn’t mentioned.
Mass movements are no respecters of individual freedoms.
Who in the hell talks like this? Who demands this of people?
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