2016 Postmortem

For a very long time now right here on DU, I've been trying to put the theory into predictive practice.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5415300&mesg_id=5421432

When you begin to realize that conservative leaders zeroed in on this demographic and have been successfully smacking right-wing authoritarians with the fear-wicket since about 1946, you realize that fear has been the driver of American foreign and domestic policy all of our lives.

It was how the Bush people got away with everything, because while we are only beginning to realize what has been going on, they have perfected the use of fear and dishonesty as a social motivator.

As I pointed out in that article above, political conservatism is directly related to fear, and conservatism actually runs on a sliding scale. Ratchet up the fear, and you have more people temporarily making conservative choices.

They'll be back in 2016, and they will have a new, refined plan which will be even more sophisticated. I ask all of you reading this to remind yourselves, when the political environment becomes very very frightening once again, that the fear is intentionally created to influence your decision-making.

Remind yourselves that the real enemy walks free and among you, not in some insignificant faraway land.