The Danger of using Fear to generate votes.

Post subject: The Danger Of Using Fear to Generate Votes.

Have you noticed how fear and the threat of terrorism are being used to generate votes in elections? When any political party perpetuates fear and lower energies to get into power, what does this do to our collective consciousness, and the creation of a positive future?
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coradcor2012Joined: 30 Jan 2007Posts: 11
Posted: 14 Mar 2007 12:22 am Post subject: reply

Its seems to be a sure bet for a politician: use the blame and fear card and humanity begins to automatically salivate like Pavlovs dog. Howard used it before the last election with the Tampa/children overboard crisis. Pauline Hanson tried to use it by saying that all of our problems can be eradicated if we just make foreigners look and dress like us! Hitler played the mother of all fear hate cards with the "Lets blame the jews" campaign. What amazes me is not so much that politicians use this as a means of manipulation...but that WE keep falling for it. I remember when i was about ten years old seeing for the first time photos of survivors of the nazi death camps...and hearing about the holocaust. I was left with such a deep sense of shock...how could people do that to eachother? But i also remember thinking.. well...we will never do that again will we!! We've learnt our lesson...we have seen the error of our ways....maybe not! It may seem like a bit of a stretch to make a link between Hitler and some of Howard's actions (not to mention Hanson)...but i feel like they are within the same vein of egotistic actions....and it is a slippery slide once we hop in. But...first of all..i need to look at myself...and ask myself: "How do I blame others to avoid the fact that this reality is my responsibility" if i am honest with myself i do it all the time. I am not proud of it. Perhaps the politicians will not change until we do. I get the feeling that this may be true. It annoys me though because i really want to BLAME the pollies!!!