Fear the Fear Mongers

Little, weak minds are swayed by fear. And Texas has a lot of them.

Dan Patrick, the Republican candidate for Lt. Governor, is using fear to bait the voters of Texas.  He claims ISIS is about to invade across out borders and only he can stop them, because only he has the right fortitude to stand up to the wishy-washy Obama administration.

First, this is very typical of rhetoric from a radio talk show host, which is what Patrick is.

Second, it is not true. 

There is no credible threat from ISIS at our southern frontier. None, according to the CIA director who appeared on talk shows last weekend. And if memory serves me correctly, the reason Perry called up troops (without pay by the way) was to stop the flood of children across the Rio Grande. Unless ISIS has been indoctrinating four, five and six year-olds in Central America, I am afraid that Dan Patrick’s announcements are just hot air.

But that is the way Republicans campaign.  FEAR.  They talk to an older, whiter American voter who is afraid to death of change — afraid to death that the government is failing to protect them at every turn.  Ebola is in my neighborhood in Dallas, I don’t blame Obama, but I do blame Presbyterian Hospital for some very poor procedural issues. But my god, read the right wing sites and you would have thought Obama sprayed us with the virus from his own personal drones."He is trying to kill us off."  that was an actual quote from one of the leading voices on the far Right.

FEAR.

FDR said the only thing we have to fear is fear itself…and today we have to fear the radical politicians who practice FEAR MONGEERING as their means to enter public office.

I don’t know much about Mr. Patrick’s opponent in this race, but I do know that she has to be better than this hot air bag.