One often wonders why and when Americans became so terrified of so
many innocuous things such as who someone loves, how they worship, where
they came from ...
In America’s National Anthem, the last line in the refrain claims this country is the “
land of the free and the home of the brave,”
but it does not apply to a large segment of the population suffocated
by irrational fear robbing them of their freedom. There are millions of
brave Americans whose courage makes them truly free, but only because
they have not played into the hands of cowardly repugicans who are
terrified voters will notice their gross incompetence. No American is
free when fear causes a change in their brain function and behavior,
particularly when it induces cognitive paralysis, but that is precisely
what is occurring in America. One often wonders why and when Americans
became so terrified of so many innocuous things such as who someone
loves, how they worship, where they came from, when a woman gives birth,
the government, foreign religious wars, or an African virus; all things repugicans use to incite irrational fear and hatred for other
Americans.
The repugicans certainly understand that the ignorance
plaguing this nation allows them to fear-monger to great effect;
particularly going into an important midterm election. Of course, the
latest irrational fright is the death of one man from the African Ebola virus that repugicans have used to spread anxiety about a “
deadly epidemic”
and implicate President Obama for endangering Americans. The repugicans
have had a great measure of success portraying Ebola as clear proof the
Obama Administration cannot prevent Americans from succumbing to the
alleged Ebola epidemic. In fact, as
noted
in the New York Times earlier this month, repugicans parlayed the
death of one man and infection of two nurses into a campaign theme that
because of Obama and Democrats, conditions in America are “
decidedly grim” and that “
the Democratic Party runs a government so fundamentally broken it cannot offer its people the most basic protection from harm.”
The repugicans have also spread fear among the
population of immigrant children from Central America they claim are an
existential threat to every white man, woman, and child in America.
Since when have so many Americans been so terrified of children? Likely
since repugicans claim they are infected with diseases like Ebola, or
trained by ISIL to kill every white christian man, woman, and child to
destroy America for islam. In fact, why are so many Americans so
horrified of islamic extremists waging a sectarian religious war on the
other side of the world to establish an islamic caliphate? It is simply
because repugicans have convinced many Americans, mostly evangelical
extremists, that muslims from halfway around the world are intent on
forcing them to convert to islam or they will exterminate every christian in America; precisely what evangelicals want to inflict on muslims living halfway around the world.
There is no mystery about why repugicans are
spreading fear; they desperately need to distract Americans’ attention
away from their gross incompetence. Particularly because every so-called
threat is due to either their obstructionism or anti-government
policies; such as slashing NIH funding over the past ten years that
prevented development of an Ebola vaccine that could have stopped the
virus in its tracks in West Africa. They are also responsible for the
rise of ISIL because shrub-repugicans invaded Iraq and assisted shia muslims to purge the country of sunnis that became the dreaded ISIL. The repugicans are also solely responsible for the shrub law that drove the
influx of child immigrants from Central America who suddenly became an
existential threat because an African American man is President.
There are millions of Americans who have a
legitimate reason to be frightened, but it is not from ISIL, Ebola, or
children emigrating from Central America and they are all due to repugican policies and obstructionism. Every day innocent Americans are
shot dead due to the number of guns repugicans want in Americans’
hands to satisfy the NRA and repay gun manufacturers for their campaign
donations. When President Obama and Democrats attempted to protect
Americans, particularly after twenty innocent children were massacred, repugicans used fear of “Obama coming for Americans’ guns” to
block simple and sane gun safety measures. Still, despite the spate of
mass shootings claiming innocent lives since the Sandy Hook slaughter,
something every American should be terrified of happening again, repugican fear-mongering prevails and innocent Americans perish.
Every American should be scared to death that their
water and air is being poisoned by repugicans’ donors in the chemical,
coal, and oil industries, as well as the repugican cabal’s attempt to eliminate the
one government agency attempting to protect them from environmental
toxins. In California, several cities are either on the verge of being out of drinking water, or suffer from fracking-poisoned wells. All the while repugicans
campaigning for Congress are fear-mongering that their water woes are
due to environmental protections, and unbelievably they are succeeding
because irrational fear of “environmental extremists” supersedes their fear of being poisoned or being without life-sustaining water.
The list of legitimate fears repugicans are
responsible for, and never call attention to, are numerous and yet
Americans never go into panic mode because the wingnut corporate
media focuses intently on whatever fright of the day repugicans need to
keep Americans distracted. It is incredibly pathetic that such a large
segment of the population seems to relish living in fear; fear of gays,
women’s reproductive health, non-christians, a muslim sectarian war,
Central American children, and an African virus that killed one man
because a corporate hospital failed its mission.
The real epidemic in America, and there are many, is
fear and it is driven by repugicans taking advantage of the
overwhelming ignorance of an overwhelming number of Americans too stupid
to understand the real threat to their existence is repugicans. The
sad fact is that they are so distracted by irrational fear, they will
dutifully vote for repugicans and hasten their own demise; something
the Ebola virus, ISIL, or child immigrants can never achieve. As
Franklin Delano Roosevelt said 81 years ago, the only thing Americans
have to fear is fear itself, and with the level of fear in the
population today, Americans should be very afraid.
