 debbyski says: "Underscoring the power of fighting fearmongers without resorting to fearmongering, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche issued this warning with which I close. "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. In reminding his fellow Americans that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, President Roosevelt sought to make us less vulnerable to our enemies, not more like them." You are 100% right. The paranoia that is gripping a certain segment of American society at present makes them totally open to be manipulated by corrupt politicians. The whole "war on terror" has degenerated into something like the McCarthy era - where instead of a communist there is now a terrorist hiding behind every Bush. The leadership of a man like FDR compared to the greedy and hateful Bush policies ought to give anyone pause. We are still in the aftermath of Bush's mountain of federal debt and his attempts to convert every vital government program and function from Social Security to homeland security into a semiprivatized profit generator for GOP-friendly corporations to whom trillions of taxpayer dollars would be diverted and from whom political and financial support would flow. THANK GOD HE DIDN'T SUCEED IN PRIVATIZING SOCIAL SECURITY. In addition, Bush failed to prevent a preventable terrorist attack, the worst in U.S. history, because he and his little gang were too busy consolidating thei... It makes me think of this quote from General Douglas McArthur: "Our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in...war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear." |
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