The Hysterical Style in American Politics

[Resnic]

Just looking at their language tells you they are a alarmists. They get their way by scaring people or angering them. That's how they get attention is with extreme language.

Everything is an emergency, republicans are destroying democracy, Russia will declare war on all of Europe if they aren't stopped, if you like trump or Republicans then you're an extreme super mega maga, white Christians want to make all brown and black people bow down to them, you should give up your car or else you will destroy the world, children will die if they don't get surgical tranny surgeries, if you don't get a vaccine you will kill your grandma and so on.

It's always 0 to 100 with them. Always this extreme, over blown and over stated, and alarming language. They have gone so far if they declared ww3 I wouldn't believe it till a bomb hit me because they have made me not believe a thing they say.

I am just so fucking sick and tired of them that I honestly do not care what they say anymore. They are the real life boy who cried wolf.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Listening to Doc beat on me and others leads all to say, "Now we know what it is to be smitten by a jawbone of an ass."

 

[MinTrut]

The Hysterical Style in American Politics​

To enact its unpopular agendas, the progressive movement must scare the people silly and gin up chaos to destroy its perceived enemies—any crisis it can.​

The Hysterical Style in American Politics › American Greatness

The post-Joe McCarthy era and the candidacy of Barry Goldwater once prompted liberal political scientist Richard Hofstadter to chronicle a supposedly long-standing right-wing “paranoid style” of…

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18 Jan 2024 ~~ By Victor Davis Hanson

The post-Joe McCarthy era and the candidacy of Barry Goldwater once prompted liberal political scientist Richard Hofstadter to chronicle a supposedly long-standing right-wing “paranoid style” of conspiracy-fed extremism.
But far more common, especially in the 21st century, has been a left-wing, hysterical style of inventing scandals and manipulating perceived tensions for political advantage.
Or, in the immortal words of Barack Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, “Never let a serious crisis go to waste.”
The 2008 economic emergency crested on September 7, with the near collapse of the home mortgage industry.
Obama took office on January 20, 2009, more than four months after the meltdown. In that interim, the officials had finally restored financial confidence and plotted a course of economic recovery.
o matter. The Obama administration never stopped hyping the financial meltdown as if it had just occurred. That way, it rammed through Obamacare, massive deficit spending, and the vast expansion of the federal government. All that stymied economic growth and recovery for years.
In 2016, Donald Trump was declared Hitler-like and an existential threat to democracy.
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Everything from destroying the southern border to dropping SAT requirements for college admission followed.
Sometimes real, sometimes hyped crises lead to these contrived left-wing hysterias — like the January 6 violent “armed insurrection” or the “fascist” “ultra-MAGA” threat.
Otherwise, the progressive movement cannot enact its unpopular agendas. So, it must scare the people silly and gin up chaos to destroy its perceived enemies — any crisis it can.



Commentary:
There does not seem to be any boundaries for Democrat Socialist behavior.
Guess that is why they have so many famous genocides.

Both criminal gangs do this.

Pretending that this is unique to Democrats, or that Democrats are socialists, is insane.

 

[Blues Man]

Really? So, the worldwide inflation had nothing to do with governments all around the world shutting down the world economy to fight Covid? None if it helped spur shortages and inflation? And all the governments around the world declaring war on fossil fuels also has not contributed significantly to further inflation and shortages? The fact that farmers in the Netherlands, for example, are told they can't grow as much food because there is carbon in fertilizers, as the UN projects a billion people to starve that year, has nothing to do with the world economy? And how about government printing money out of thin air? That does not cause inflation and effect the economy either?

Do tell.

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[Votto]

5 reasons the president has little control over the economy

So much of what happens in the world is outside the president's control. It is time to unmask a "convenient untruth" in U.S. politics.

bigthink.com

An Important Reminder: Presidents Don't Control the Economy

In a new update to a fantastically interesting paper, Princeton professors Alan Blinder and Mark Watson offer an answer that says, essentially, they have much less power than you think. Here's a quick look at GDP growth by president going back to the second Truman administration ...

finance.yahoo.com

The President of the United States Does Not Control the Economy

A newly updated paper shows that the economy has reliably grown faster under Democratic presidents than Republicans. But what does that really tell us?

www.theatlantic.com

In case you had not noticed, there is a thing call the Federal Reserve that continuously tinkers with the economy by setting monetary policy for the US. So, when you go to buy that home, the mortgage rate is set by them. They will determine whether you can afford to buy a home or not based on the rates they set, and they set those rates to try and guide the economy towards or away from inflation. Just the mere existence of the Federal Reserve in this regard is proof that the government has a great deal of power over the economy, or there jobs are all illegitimate.

And the fact that governments have caused mass inflation by just printing money is both a historical and economics 101 fact.

As for the governments war on global warming, from the horses mouth, listen to this.



I don't know what planet you live on, but it's not the one I live on.

 

[j-mac]

Obama was a better president than his predecessor and the blob who came after him; that's a sure bet.

You're a progressive democrat...Of course you're going to believe that.

 

[j-mac]

you know, mac, they really should replace that bull on wall st with a 20 ft bronze craps table

The stock market is gambling....

 

[rampart]

The stock market is gambling....

you bet it is.

i just looked at my post here and thought "20 foot craps table?" 20 feet sound like a pretty normal craps table this morning. maybe a 200 foot craps table?

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

You're a progressive democrat...Of course you're going to believe that.

Yes, most well educated, open minded men and women think that, yes.

 

[j-mac]

you bet it is.

i just looked at my post here and thought "20 foot craps table?" 20 feet sound like a pretty normal craps table this morning. maybe a 200 foot craps table?

Still better than the alternative....

 

[j-mac]

Yes, most well educated, open minded men and women think that, yes.

Not healthy, nor true to think that anyone that disagrees with you is uneducated...

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Not healthy, nor true to think that anyone that disagrees with you is uneducated...

You are admitting that you are unhealthy and uneducated.

Most healthy and well-educated Americans think Obama was a far better President than Trump.

 

[rampart]

Still better than the alternative....

not trying to cut the legs off the table, but maybe the rules could use a little tweaking or enforcement to give the players better odds.

 

[j-mac]

You are admitting that you are unhealthy and uneducated.

Wait what? How in the hell did you come up with that from my post? Are you having a stroke?

Most healthy and well-educated Americans think Obama was a far better President than Trump.

Really? And by what metrics are you using to make that call?

 

[LeroyDumonde]

Really? So, the worldwide inflation had nothing to do with governments all around the world shutting down the world economy to fight Covid? None if it helped spur shortages and inflation? And all the governments around the world declaring war on fossil fuels also has not contributed significantly to further inflation and shortages? The fact that farmers in the Netherlands, for example, are told they can't grow as much food because there is carbon in fertilizers, as the UN projects a billion people to starve that year, has nothing to do with the world economy? And how about government printing money out of thin air? That does not cause inflation and effect the economy either?

Do tell.

So that was all Trump's doing? You've achieved a level of TDS that I did not think was possible.

 

[j-mac]

not trying to cut the legs off the table, but maybe the rules could use a little tweaking or enforcement to give the players better odds.

Any proposals?

 

[Mac-7]

Meanwhile back in reality....the Stock Market under Obama grew 149% according to the DJIA.

Economic growth was anything but stymied.

And also thanks in part to obama home prices have doubled while real income remains practically stagnant

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Wait what? How in the hell did you come up with that from my post? Are you having a stroke?

Really? And by what metrics are you using to make that call?

You disagree. Tell us why?

 

[rampart]

Any proposals?

a few. i'll collect into a decent op .

 

[j-mac]

You disagree. Tell us why?

I asked you a question...I will answer yours when you answer mine...