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(UPDATE: Here’s a link titled “Continuity We Can Believe In.”)
President Obama has been pushing Congress to pass a “stimulus” bill to rescue the United States from a failing economy. Every day I listen to or read the news, I hear Barack Obama saying that if we don’t do something NOW, we’ll never recover from the recession.
Sound familiar? It should, because it is precisely what government seeks to do during a crisis, real or fake. Talk up the threat, explain to the people why they are in imminent danger, and make them believe that the government knows exactly what to do with a complex situation. Use the word “crisis” often, and instill fear in the hearts of everyone. Urge lawmakers to pass your agenda. If it fails, keep asking for more, because throwing more money at the problem always fixes it.
As Obama’s chief of staff Rahm Emanuel recently said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste… This crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before.”
This is exactly what George W. Bush did when we went into Iraq. Push something through, very quickly, and talk about data that support your point of view. Shut out all other perspectives, or polarize them and call them crazy. Use the media to support your mission, and the people will passively accept that you have their best interest in mind.
And we thought we voted for “change.”
Can somebody please explain to me why this fear tactic is legitimate?
