The Purpose Driven Strife (Updated) 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., looks at the rightwing tendency to manufacture panic over nonexistent threats. A nugget:
“We’re going to be under sharia law!”
Except, we’re not.
“We’ve become a socialist country!”
Except we haven’t.
“There’s a War on Christmas!”
Except there isn’t.
“They’re trying to take our guns away!”
Pitts suggest that the danger of these waves of panic is in distracting us from actual threats to the polity.
I go further.
I think that’s not only the danger of them, I think that, as far as the threat meisters are concerned, that is the purpose of them.
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