For decades, we have been taught to cower before the shadow of every tin-pot dictator and every sliver of cultural difference. All up and down the social, economic, and political order we have been told: Be Afraid.
I think it’s time for that to come to an end, don’t you?
Yep.
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Tags: Liberalism · Conservatism
| Pericles 10/15/08 3:37 PM | QUOTE (Lancaster Online @ Oct 15 2008, 03:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Post your thoughts and comments about this blog post. For decades, Americans have been told to be afraid of one thing after another. We were told to be afraid of Communists. (Kennedy) We were told to be afraid of racial desegregation. (Democrats) We were told to be afraid of angry black men. (Democrats again) We were told to be afraid of North Vietnam. (Johnson) We were told to be afraid of hippies. (Sharron Tate) We were told to be afraid of Communists again. (Scoop Jackson) We were told to be afraid of the Sandinistas. (Ollie North - Semper Fi) We were told to be afraid of Saddam Hussein. (Clinton) We were told to be afraid of a national healthcare plan. (Most house Democrats) We were told to be afraid of gays and lesbians in the military. (Southern Red Dogs) We were told to be afraid of a philandering president. (Juanita Broderick) After all that fear, you might think we would be done. Instead, that was only the warm-up for eight years of the rule of fear. We were told to be afraid of the Kyoto Accord. (US Senate) We were told to be afraid of the imminent collapse of Social Security. (Unfortunately no one has the guts to say that) We were told to be afraid of global Islamic terrorism. (Everyone except Farrakhan and Shelia Jackson Lee after 9/11) We were told to be afraid of terrorists among us. (I'm too tired to go on.) We are told to be afraid of the collapse of the global economic system. (Idiot - Google Iceland Banks) |
