One of the themes Americans have heard repetitively from the John McCain camp is how he strives to be distanced from the George W. Bush regime of hate and fear.
Yet Sen. McCain's campaign strategies reveal the truth.
In years to come the Bush administration will be looked upon as an administration that relied on propaganda and the exploitation of fear to move forward on a disastrous, single-minded agenda of social conservatism, laissez-faire economics and war mongering.
Remember the WMDs that were never found, the world will collapse if we don't hand over 700 billion dollars today, oil will dry up if we don't pollute the shores immediately - just to name a few of the scores of lies, twisted truths and outright ridiculousness of the past eight years.
The Bush era, since it's inception, has relied on the rhetoric of fear. It does not take a rocket scientist to sort the hyperbole and red herrings thrust upon unaware Americans.
Do we really see any difference in the McCain tactics being used to get him elected President?
No.
If, perchance the thought occurred, you kept a stick count during the debates of how many times McCain used the term "threat to the national security" you're hand would be sore. His parroting of the Bush method of exploiting the fear of supposed threat is remarkable.
But it is his ACORN rant and Ayers rant that is the most revealing. Up to and including the possible violation of law, McCain has targeted fear to try to swing voters to his side. Trying to exploit the fear of "terrorism," the past acquaintance of Obama, Mr. Ayers, is spun into an alliance of evil with a known "terrorist." Oddly enough the same boomer generation McCain is trying to appeal to had labelled Ayers as a radical.
ACORN, according to McCain is trying to steal the election and without any shred of evidence, McCain has accused them of violating campaign laws. ACORN - McCain's weapons of mass destruction.
Eight years is enough. Americans need to end the era of lemmings and once again become critical, free-thinking, independent human beings.
The rhetoric of fear is meant to stimulate the most primal emotions. To fall to the exploitation of that rhetoric and to act simply on emotion without logic makes us no better than cavemen.
And, like the Dark Ages, that is what the rhetoric of the Republicans strive for. A society much like the serfs, unquestioning, faithful and most of all fearful.
