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Woozle: correction

2016-04-08T18:44:51Z

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Woozle: another example

2016-04-07T23:17:33Z

another example

Woozle: no-go zones

2016-04-07T23:06:51Z

no-go zones

Woozle: link

2016-04-05T22:46:01Z

link

Woozle: the myth of communism vs. capitalism

2016-04-05T22:45:08Z

the myth of communism vs. capitalism

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This is one of the core methodologies of how the Republican Party makes its living:
# Create a threat.
# Promote the idea that the threatening threat is very, very threatening. Increase power on the propogandamizer until people feel suitably threatened by the really threatening threat.
# Campaign on promises to defend against it.
# If elected, go out and attack something<ref name=related>The target doesn't have to be related to the threat -- e.g. we were attacked on 9/11 by mostly Saudi Arabians, so of course we had to attack Iraq because Muslims. The threat may also be imaginary or it may have been one we created, such as Al Qaeda.</ref> to show the threatening threat who's boss.
# Act all shocked (shocked!) when the target retaliates or protests -- a new Threat to America! <s>We're saved</s> I mean how terrible, and we must bomb, torture, imprison, or harass more people to show them we ''really'' mean business!
# Where possible, attempt to capitalize on whatever fear has been created by selling people things: Glenn Beck's gold coins, Jim Bakker's barely-survival food...

You may think I'm exaggerating -- but a number of right-wing pundits were actually ''recorded on camera'' saying, apparently without irony, that "we need a new 9/11" so that people will take the threatening threat seriously, and elect more threat-defending Republicans to office. None of them were laughed off the set, nor even seem to have lost any credibility in dysconservative circles.

Among the fake threats Republicans have ginned up are the following:
* '''non-heterosexuals''' and '''non-cisgendered people''': they're different from the majority in certain ways that trigger deep-seated instinctive emotions in many people, and therefore trigger unconscious emotional reactions. Most people want to help prevent violence against such people, who have a hard enough time as it is; Republicans smell an easy kill.
* '''black people''', especially the ones who complain about being demonized ("playing the race card"): Republicans like to pretend that racism is over because we have a black president (who himself has been the target of endless obscenely racial abuse), but we are increasingly seeing evidence from smartphone recordings which show that black people have been telling the truth all along about how they are treated by the police in many places (just for example). It ain't over, and sometimes it seems like it's getting worse.
* '''hispanics''': they're apparently lazy layabouts who lie around a lot sucking up public welfare while somehow also taking our jobs. Nice trick, that.
* '''Muslims''': Republicans would have us believe that Islam is far more violent than Christianity, but both history and recent events show Christian extremists to be no less bloodthirsty than their Islamic counterparts
* '''abortion''': aborting a pregnancy at any stage is apparently exactly the same as killing a baby; the fact that abortion is a medical procedure which results in bloody masses of tissue that may or may not vaguely resemble human infants proves this beyond a shadow of a doubt, and justifies killing doctors, harassing their colleagues, and vandalizing their workplaces. Ayup.
* '''liberals''': apparently there is a growing contingent on the far-right which fervently believes that liberals have destroyed, or are destroying, or want to destroy, America -- while liberals are in fact pretty much the only people who give enough fucks<ref name=fucks>If the use of swear-words offends you, then you are being "politically correct". Just so you know.</ref> to actually try to fix things, rather than just using a pose of fixing things as a pretext for gaining power.
* '''terrorists''': yes, they actually kill people -- but far less than many other phenomena that Republicans seem to have no trouble ignoring or even playing down. Deaths from terrorism have been on a decline for the past few decades, as well; this is not a new problem, and it's getting better on its own. Terrorists have been one of the primary excuses for dysconservative hypocrisy on the subject of small government: they brought us the dysfunctional TSA (which replaced a private, for-profit system which was ''working just fine,'' thanks), a now-even-more-biggerer-than-ever-before Military Industrial Complex, increased government surveillance and reduced rights of privacy against same: ''1984'' in a bottle (just add media).

Oddly enough, they seem to go out of their way to downplay any ''genuine'' threats to society, such as increasing economic inequality or global warming. One almost suspects there might be some kind of monetary connection involved...
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 ===LGBT People===
 * Republian lawmakers everywhere seem to think that LGBT people deserve all the discrimination and abuse they can get:
-** The entire Republican contingent of the NC State Senate, when they unanimously voted for SB2.(see {{hilite|NC Bathroom Bill}})
+** The entire Republican contingent of the NC State Senate, when they unanimously voted for HB2.(see {{hilite|NC Bathroom Bill}})
 ** Texas State Representative Matt Krause (R)<ref>'''2016-04-07''' [http://www.liberalamerica.org/2016/04/07/meet-man-writing-hate-texas-religious-freedom-bill-act/ Meet The Man Writing More Hate Into The Texas Constitution]</ref>
 ===Islam===

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 Oddly enough, they seem to go out of their way to downplay any ''genuine'' threats to society, such as increasing economic inequality or global warming. One almost suspects there might be some kind of monetary connection involved...
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 * Clare Lopez, one of Ted Cruz's primary foreign policy advisers, has expanded the popular right-wing claim of fictional "Muslim No-Go Zones" in certain areas by suggesting that there is one such zone in Minneapolis.<ref name=patheos1>'''2016-04-07''' [http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2016/04/07/cruz-adviser-claims-minneapolis-has-muslim-no-go-zones/ Cruz Adviser Claims Minneapolis Has Muslim 'No-Go' Zones]</ref>
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 * '''liberals''': apparently there is a growing contingent on the far-right which fervently believes that liberals have destroyed, or are destroying, or want to destroy, America -- while liberals are in fact pretty much the only people who give enough fucks<ref name=fucks>If the use of swear-words offends you, then you are being "politically correct". Just so you know.</ref> to actually try to fix things, rather than just using a pose of fixing things as a pretext for gaining power.
 * '''terrorists''': yes, they actually kill people -- but far less than many other phenomena that Republicans seem to have no trouble ignoring or even playing down. Deaths from terrorism have been on a decline for the past few decades, as well; this is not a new problem, and it's getting better on its own. Terrorists have been one of the primary excuses for dysconservative hypocrisy on the subject of small government: they brought us the dysfunctional TSA (which replaced a private, for-profit system which was ''working just fine,'' thanks), a now-even-more-biggerer-than-ever-before Military Industrial Complex, increased government surveillance and reduced rights of privacy against same: ''1984'' in a bottle (just add media).
-* '''communism''' or even '''socialism''': It needs to be understood that the concept of an ideological system struggle between "Free Market Capitalism" and "Communism" is largely a myth told to children.<ref name=morbius>Credit is due to Edward Morbius for this formulation.</ref> {{hilite|[further explanation needed]}}
+* '''communism''' or even '''socialism''': It needs to be understood that the concept of an ideological system struggle between "Free Market Capitalism" and "Communism" is largely a myth told to children.<ref name=morbius>Credit is due to Edward Morbius (see comments [https://plus.google.com/u/0/102282887764745350285/posts/5m69LfmHzeq here]) for this formulation.</ref> {{hilite|[further explanation needed]}}
 Oddly enough, they seem to go out of their way to downplay any ''genuine'' threats to society, such as increasing economic inequality or global warming. One almost suspects there might be some kind of monetary connection involved...
 ==Footnotes==
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