Feb. 16th, 2005 01:17 am
Fear is their strategy.
1. Spend years pushing the "liberal media bias" conspiracy. At all times that the media is subjective, call liberal media bias. If the media doesn't give the Christian perspective, point to the liberal media bias. If the media does a story that discredits your party, shout liberal media bias at the top of your lungs.
2. Instill a sense of fear. Fear terrorism. Fear nukes. Fear homosexuality. Fear rape. Fear going out at night. Fear your neighbor. Fear anyone you've never met before. Fear God. Above all, be afraid.
3. Harness that fear and you have your victim.
The strategy works: the fear after September 11 was harnessed in the right way to get approval of our war for Middle East control that we're in now.
"the homosexuals ... want to destroy the Christians"
"the homosexuals ... want to destroy the Christians"
"the homosexuals ... want to destroy the Christians"
I must have missed that memo...
Last I heard, it was the other way around.
2. Instill a sense of fear. Fear terrorism. Fear nukes. Fear homosexuality. Fear rape. Fear going out at night. Fear your neighbor. Fear anyone you've never met before. Fear God. Above all, be afraid.
3. Harness that fear and you have your victim.
"Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today. More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history." - Pat Robertson in a 1993 interview with Molly IvinsSo I wonder what he calls it when Republicans have control of the White House and Congress? Especially when the party he's helped turn into a victim is pushing bills that would write bigotry into the constitution and serve directly to the interests of the rich.
The strategy works: the fear after September 11 was harnessed in the right way to get approval of our war for Middle East control that we're in now.
"the homosexuals ... want to destroy the Christians"
"the homosexuals ... want to destroy the Christians"
"the homosexuals ... want to destroy the Christians"
I must have missed that memo...
Last I heard, it was the other way around.