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In 2004 and 2008, RushBo and Cheney at al were telling us that if we voted for the Dems, al-Qaeda would get us. Now it's "Vote Republican or lose your job". There's just always a boogey-man du jour. But, Repubs (generally) use threats that aren't firmly anchored in a little thing called objective reality. We elected Obama, and none of the bad things they told us would happen happened.
- no concentration camps
- no confiscation of guns
- taxes are down, and the Dow is up
- oil and banks and telecomm weren't nationalized
- no forced gay marriage (or whatever the fuck that one was about)
- kids are still reciting The Pledge in school every day
- and on and on and on
But - throwing a bone to the centrists in the crowd - yes, the Dems play the same game (tho' with one notable difference). The Dems have been trying to warn us about the Repub agenda:
- kill the unions
- overturn Roe v Wade
- defund the safety net
- de-regulation
- cut down on competition and accountability
The difference being that the Dems are warning us about real problems with a Radical Right agenda, and the Repubs are mostly just makin' shit up.
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