FEAR MONGERING. Fear mongering is political speech at its absolute worst! And fear mongering is absolutely rampant in today’s political discourse on both "sides of the aisle". In fact, I daresay that it is about the only oral and written tool presently in use. Why is it used at all? Because it is so effective. Despite being schooled by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself", Americans are daily bombarded by streams of fear mongering calculated to enrage us, yet also paralyze us by our feelings of impotence and despair.
Well, I for one am sick of it. My name is Gus. I’m a hard working ordinary American, just like you. And just like you, I am extremely angry that my fellow citizens are daily whipped into fits of rage. We are being manipulated all for the purpose of extracting from us every last dollar that we own and/or earn.
Political solutions are, for the most part, impossible for achieve. For those in elective positions, there they shall remain until the extremely wealthy and powerful no longer have use of that person. For the others, political solutions are impossible because they don’t hold elective office.
Let me introduce my SUPER SIX list. After, I will explain my plan of action:
Congressman Waxman has incessantly drumbeat the speculative theory of manmade global warming. He has repeatedly claimed that the burning of carbon fuels (i.e. oil and oil by products, coal, and wood) by man has almost irreparably harmed Planet Earth, and if we Americans don’t act immediately to drastically reduce our use of such fuels, then we will be responsible for the destruction of this planet and its cataclysmic death spasm in the form of gigantic hurricanes and tsunamis, exploding volcanoes, horrendous earth quakes, parching droughts (and the aftermath of millions of gaping sinkholes and the desertification of vast swaths of heretofore arable land), and bombardment by meteors.
Radio/Television Personality. If you listen to his radio program for more than three minutes, blood is sure to come squirting out of your eyeballs. To hear him tell it, the Chinese already own this nation in proxy, our dollar bills are useful only as toilet paper, the Mexicans control all of the south west, and the end of times is upon us. All we can do now is shed all debt, buy and hoard gold, build underground fall out shelters, hide down there with our homegrown vegetables, and subscribe to Fusion magazine (where he has the gall to label his Armageddon diatribes "Entertainment"?!?!?)
Former United States Vice President and Senator (D – TN). Never before in the history of mankind has one individual reaped so much wealth (and, apparently, converted it all to Hostess Twinkies © ) by screeching doomsday predictions. Mr. Gore has had a best-selling book ghostwritten under his nom-de-plume; has had that book converted into a movie; has set up dummy corporations which, in exchange for billions of taxpayer dollars, will possibly plant a couple of acres of trees; and has climbed into bed with General Electric. Oops, I digress. To hear Mr. Gore tell it, in addition to all the calamities trumpeted by Rep. Waxman, the Arctic and Antarctic poles AND all the world’s glaciers are doomed to melt, which will cause sea levels to rise to such an extent that Vail ski chalets will soon be beachfront property; polar bears will become extinct; and this nations bread-basket region will be Saharan (while still being under water- go figure!)
Radio Personality and former drug addict. In kinder, gentler, more dulcet tones than the aforementioned rabble rouser Beck, Mr. Limbaugh foresees the "destruction of American as we now know it" by the actions of Femi-nazis, eco-nazis, Chicago-land-nazis (with Der Fuehrer Obama), and your plain old garden variety Nazis. While our President is indeed weak and unintelligent, Mr. Limbaugh has contributed mightily to the President’s emasculation by bringing to the attention of the world the otherwise unnoticed labeling of our President by a writer in the Los Angeles Times as the "Magic Negro". Mr. Limbaugh has stated that he hoped President Obama failed at the implementation of his policies. It is difficult enough for our effeminate President to command respect on the world stage without having his legs cut out from under him by America’s self-proclaimed "anchor man".
How can you tell when President Obama is fear mongering? When ever his lips are moving. This man has yet to face a problem that is not the greatest problem this nation has ever faced. Bad economy you think? The President claims that it is worse than the Great Depression! Moreover, if Congress did not immediately pass a stimulus bill (a/k/a Waste and Fraud bill) of seven hundred eighty seven billion dollars (a/k/a $787,000,000,000.00), the American economy would plunge into an abyss with absolutely no recovery. Ever. Think you pay too much for health care? The President claims that the American health care system is so abysmal that our system could benefit by copying the gold-standard systems of England, Canada, and Kazakhstan. Better health care, lower costs, lower taxes (except if you make more than $32,000.00 a year), how can we say "no" to that? President Obama has literally followed the instructions of his chief of staff Rahm Emmanuel who stated that this President would never let a crisis go to waste. President Obama has made sure that EVERYTHING is a crisis.
Former President of the United States (R). Acting in response to the attack of September 11, 2001, Mr. Bush created an entire new bureaucracy, the United States Department of Homeland Security. That boondoggle has spawned the Transportation Security Administration. This misfit organization created a five tier threat level assessor which, as far as I know, has never dropped below the second highest level since its creation. Talk about instilling fear into the hearts of the traveling public! Let us not forget that President Bush terrified the world community by claiming that a two bit psycho-maniacal murderous thug in the backwater third world cesspool of Iraq posed an immediate, large and deadly threat to all nations.