Republican Party Modus Operandi

[SanHeChuan]

For many years now the Republican Party has taken to the tactics of Appeal to emotion, creating a Culture of fear, and Propaganda.

They do this because they believe that Americans are not rational thinking human beings but sheeple not worth reasoning with. Why bother discussing merits of your ideas if you believe as they obviously do that manipulation works better. They act like they are stupid and maybe they are, but they act like we are stupid, and that’s where they lost me. If they think you’re stupid, will they lie to you, or will they show you one hand while hiding the other.

The Republican National Committee plans to raise money this election cycle through an aggressive campaign capitalizing on “fear” of President Barack Obama and a promise to "save the country from trending toward socialism."
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/33866.html

The PowerPoint presentation described high-level Republican donors as "ego-driven" and claimed they could be enticed with "tchotchkes." The document included a slide -- called "The Evil Empire" -- with cartoonish images depicting Obama as the Joker, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as Cruella de Vil and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as Scooby Doo.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/03/08/rnc.images/

The presentation encourages fundraisers to use a direct marketing pitch that exploits "extreme negative feelings toward existing Administration." It also describes ways to appeal to major donors, including "peer to peer pressure," "access" and "ego driven."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010...-appeals-fear/

“If you had any doubt whatsoever, that the Republican Party has been taken over by the fear-mongering lunatic fringe, those doubts were erased today,” Democratic National Committee spokesman Brad Woodhouse told the AP. “Republicans across the country have cheered on crowds where these very images appeared.” http://www.afro.com/?p=831

[1bad65]

Is this playing on people's fears any different from how the Democrats have said Republicans wanted to starve children and force senior citizens to have to eat dog food to survive?

They also snipped together Newt Gingrich soundbites to make it appear he said he wanted Medicare to "whither on the vine", when he never said such a thing.

[1bad65]

And it was Obama who said he wanted to "spread the wealth around". That's socialism. You can't say the Republicans are playing on any type of emotion when they are just calling a spade a spade. The truth is the truth, no matter how rude, un-PC, or ugly it may be.

And the Obama Joker picture has been around awhile now. It was actually created by a guy who voted for Obama.

[dimethylsea]

For many years now the Republican Party has taken to the tactics of Appeal to emotion, creating a Culture of fear, and Propaganda.

They do this because they believe that Americans are not rational thinking human beings but sheeple not worth reasoning with. Why bother discussing merits of your ideas if you believe as they obviously do that manipulation works better. They act like they are stupid and maybe they are, but they act like we are stupid, and that’s where they lost me. If they think you’re stupid, will they lie to you, or will they show you one hand while hiding the other.

The part about most Americans being "sheeple not worth reasoning with" has alot of truth in it.

You don't reason with the people who are screaming.. you just try to get along as best you can without involving them in the critical parts of the process.

[Kansuke]

The part about most Americans being "sheeple not worth reasoning with" has alot of truth in it.

Only as relates to you.

[SanHeChuan]

Is this playing on people's fears any different from how the Democrats have said Republicans wanted to starve children and force senior citizens to have to eat dog food to survive?

I'm not saying other people don't do it. Animal rights Activists and tree huggers also make emotional appeals almost exclusively, instead of appealing to our intellect, though that is starting to change. Christianity is a two millennium long campaign of fear.

My complaint is that is the Republican Party has been using these tactics in favor of all others. I think it makes them look stupid. I think it’s condescending and arrogant. And I feel insulted and repulsed.

The truth is the truth, no matter how rude, un-PC, or ugly it may be.

Death panels are Teh Truth?

[1bad65]

Christianity is a two millennium long campaign of fear.

Incorrect. Try actually going to church beofre telling people what Christians believe.

My complaint is that is the Republican Party has been using these tactics in favor of all others. I think it makes them look stupid. I think it’s condescending and arrogant. And I feel insulted and repulsed.

You are so repulsed you give the Party who has used the fear playbook for decades though? Don't insult our intelligence.

The Republican Party is now campaigning primarily on smaller, cheaper, less intrusive Government and on national debt reduction. How is this using fear? To me, it's not fear, it's common sense.

Playing on fear is what the global warming frauds did. And they even outright lied and falsified data to further their agenda. Where is your anger there?

Death panels are Teh Truth?

Those go hand in hand with socialized medicine. If they are not in there now, they will be once this Government program runs over budget. You know what running over budget is, right? It's what EVERY Government program ends up doing.

[sanjuro_ronin]

Christianity is a two millennium long campaign of fear.

Dude, seriously, its time to stop trying to peddle that crap.

[1bad65]

Dude, seriously, its time to stop trying to peddle that crap.

Thank you.

[dimethylsea]

Christianity is a two millennium long campaign of fear.
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+1. Half the reason the GOP is so repugnant is their pandering to the evangelical Christians (who are themselves an intellectual cancer).

[sanjuro_ronin]

+1. Half the reason the GOP is so repugnant is their pandering to the evangelical Christians (who are themselves an intellectual cancer).

I don't care much for the GOP or republicans, though I agree with some of their views and don't get me started on Fundamentalist Christians, but painting EVERYONE with the same brush is NOT what you wanna be doing.

[MasterKiller]

+1. Half the reason the GOP is so repugnant is their pandering to the evangelical Christians (who are themselves an intellectual cancer).

Pushing the term "evangelical" is propaganda designed to differentiate them from other "bad" fundamentalists.

[sanjuro_ronin]

The left is just as bad as the right, case in point:

[1bad65]

I don't care much for the GOP or republicans, though I agree with some of their views and don't get me started on Fundamentalist Christians, but painting EVERYONE with the same brush is NOT what you wanna be doing.

Exactly. Should we all judge Kung-Fu practitioners based on our interactions with Rudy Abel?

[sanjuro_ronin]

Exactly. Should we all judge Kung-Fu practitioners based on our interactions with HW8?

Fixed that for you.