Fear Factor Waning as Political Tool
Playing the terror card and inciting fear in suburban moms is losing its effect for Bush and the GOP, surveys show. As economic concerns increase along with realization that they were "played" this important voting bloc is abandoning its support for Republicans.
I suspect deep cynicism will replace the anger and that will hurt politics and government for everyone in the long run. Voters don't like being lied to and being played for fools. Of course I fault these idiots for falling for it in the first place. Too many voters neglected their duty to fully examine the issues and discover the facts. It didn't occur to them that Faux News was nothing more than the GOP propaganda network and they swallowed everything they heard hook, line and sinker. Gee, haven't you heard of Google?
The fact they're awakening to the horror of the war in Iraq and that Saddam wasn't involved in 9/11 and didn't have wmd's is good and bad. They're so angry they may avoid the process altogether, leading to even more voter apathy.
Then we have these Democratic candidates running this year who refuse to take a stand on the war. According to John Zogby the war in Iraq is, far and away, the number one issue with voters. Number two is so far behind as to be insignificant. Why then do some of our major candidates not even discuss it on their websites? Why do we have a Senate candidate who refuses to come out against the war? It couldn't be any easier to knock of Sanitorium than to remind voters how he l(i)ed us into this fiasco.
The voter anger is there waiting to be tapped into. This study is one more example.
Jean Thomas, a married mother of one, said she still feels a pang of fear every time she boards an airplane for work travel around the Midwest. "Terrorism," she said, "is the biggest concern on a daily basis."
But she said she is "pretty frustrated with politics driving decisions" in Washington. That is why she said she is strongly considering abandoning her support of Republicans to vote for the Democrats.
I suspect deep cynicism will replace the anger and that will hurt politics and government for everyone in the long run. Voters don't like being lied to and being played for fools. Of course I fault these idiots for falling for it in the first place. Too many voters neglected their duty to fully examine the issues and discover the facts. It didn't occur to them that Faux News was nothing more than the GOP propaganda network and they swallowed everything they heard hook, line and sinker. Gee, haven't you heard of Google?
The fact they're awakening to the horror of the war in Iraq and that Saddam wasn't involved in 9/11 and didn't have wmd's is good and bad. They're so angry they may avoid the process altogether, leading to even more voter apathy.
Then we have these Democratic candidates running this year who refuse to take a stand on the war. According to John Zogby the war in Iraq is, far and away, the number one issue with voters. Number two is so far behind as to be insignificant. Why then do some of our major candidates not even discuss it on their websites? Why do we have a Senate candidate who refuses to come out against the war? It couldn't be any easier to knock of Sanitorium than to remind voters how he l(i)ed us into this fiasco.
The voter anger is there waiting to be tapped into. This study is one more example.
posted by PA progressive @ Friday, August 18, 2006
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