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Fear Is Fundamental To Right Wing Leadership
Don’t put all your fear eggs in one basket
Roaring Rivers
Torrents, currents, and ripples by Christyl Rivers
Freak Out Now, Because They Thrive on Fear
The price of eggs is getting expensive. You better worry about it a lot and fight tooth and claw to continue de-beaking the sad hens.
The right-wing hates regulation, it hurts their profits.
The answer is to freak out the voters by putting all the fear eggs in one basket and continually throwing them at you.
Egg — ceptual fear-mongering
Scare them with tales of everything the left wants to take from you.
They are coming for your gas range. They are coming to infiltrate your schools. They are going to take away your bacon-cheeseburger. They are coming for your guns. They want free stuff and will steal yours. They want gay predators to groom your children. They don’t even want you to grow and mow your lawn.
Here is the thing, though. There are legitimate threats we should expose if the left and center-left were as effective at messaging fear as the right is.