Posted on 03/03/2020 6:38:40 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1933 inaugural address contained a phrase, remembered to this day. In the wake of the Great Depression, he told Americans,
So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is...fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Flash forward nearly a hundred years and the American Left is pushing fear as hard as they have ever pushed anything. We have had plenty of scares since the days of FDR, including the overpopulation, acid rain, and Y2K. Some scares have changed names, from global cooling in the 1970s, only to be replaced by global warming, climate change, and now extreme weather.
Infectious diseases invoke fear as they are a frequent movie theme, from Andromeda Strain to Contagion. We were told to fear the bird flu, SARS, MERS, and Ebola. Now we are to fear Coronavirus.
Every election year seems to have a disease outbreak, as this tweet chronicles. Academic researchers study how these disease outbreaks influence federal elections. Is the Coronavirus outbreak on the eve of an election just a random coincidence?
One useful rule of thumb in assessing fear and crisis is to look at those screaming loudest. When the elites who are telling us it’s a crisis actually act like it’s a crisis, then it may be worth listening to them.
Progressive climate warriors tell us the world will end in (fill in the blank) years, yet they go merrily about their ways, flying in their high carbon footprint private jets, sailing yachts measured in the hundreds of feet, and purchasing multi-million-dollar homes along the ocean coasts.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The solution is INFORMATION which is valid, reliable and consistent. You won't get that with the rag-media in most of this country.
But you know all that.
Fear mongering is an old method of people getting what they want.
I can’t see how it will happen, but we need to find a way to re-invent Media in this country (and in the world). What we have now is just a leviathan that conspires against its own audience.
And, as night follows day, the fear mongers will return to do their master’s bidding.
:: When the elites who are telling us it’s a crisis actually act like it’s a crisis, then it may be worth listening to them. ::
Made me wonder why, on the debate stage last week, none of the candidates were wearing a mask yet called the “outbreak” a crisis at every turn.
TRUE!
The fading out of Democrat printed media helps find real truth.
Also Fox News often broadcasts what isn't heard on the lamestream media.
The Internet is also a place to hear and express different views.
“The Reichstag, I mean Capitol, will not burn on my watch!” - Shorty Bloombertg
What’s interesting to me is that D’rats, logically, should be silent, not stirring any panic at all, letting people go unaware.
Why? Well, fewer people will make less CO2 and waste, produce less car exhaust, require fewer cows to eat, require less coal-fired electricity...their dying from this virus will help save the Earth! Isn’t saving the Earth a most major proggie/D’rat goal?
[WFC has joined GS and JPM in their boycott of Alaskan drilling; RICO Act prosecutions should follow]
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