Trio using fear, hate to work their magic

Fear and hate are one of the most basic instincts of the human race and are very effective weapons to control people and get them to behave irrationally and that is the evil genius of Beck, Rush and Hannity the three stooges of disinformation.

They work their magic with fear and hate and lies.

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and hence clamorous to be led to safety] by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” H.L. Menchen

Some hobgoblins are not always imaginary in my mind but are things conflated way beyond their actual importance or you attach an evil motive to something instead of saying it was bad policy or a dumb idea.

Then comes the hate-demonization tactic, “he did it on purpose to destroy America.” Lies of omission, here is an example that was used: Obama took the American Flag off his campaign plane, he hates America. True he removed a stylized American Flag which was a logo off the plane he purchased which he was required to remove and put a new one on.

Then we have the history re-write like the founding fathers wanted a religious government, then you add the demonization factor, “why anyone wanting a secular government hates god and country.”

“If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. James Madison (In this case the enemy is the crime of being liberal!)

DENNIS SHELLHORN

Sandpoint