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Why are Democrats using dishonesty and fear in to win this election?

Its because they have no positive vision for the future and because little of their policy agenda is supported by ordinary Americans. Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi will stoop to any low to gain an electoral advantage because they know that it's their only strategy.

They know that nobody wants to be like Venezuela so they use ridiculous false comparisons and straw-man arguments. They shamelessly use outright lies and invented problems in order to divide people and create an atmosphere of fear and paranoia. The liberal media promote their messages with the sole aims of getting their gullible base to vote against their own self-interest. They claim to be protecting ordinary Americans, whilst they plan to raid their Medicare and give tax breaks to Wall Street.

This won't work though. Conservative Americans will never fall for this.
BatRinseRepeat · 31-35, F
Just stop.

Everyone knows what your really doing :

BatRinseRepeat · 31-35, F
@Karlbodge

*Spits coffee out*

Jeezus man, have some respect for yourself 🙄
Harriet03 · 41-45, F
@Karlbodge For a micro second, I thought you were being serious! You nearly got me, well done. Then I realised nobody's that stupid..
Harriet03 · 41-45, F
@BatRinseRepeat [image deleted]
SW-User
As if a single party has the market cornered on dishonesty and fear.

lorne13 · 61-69, M
@Karlbodge name one way they haven't
Karlbodge · 22-25, M
@lorne13 They have called an invading army an army instead of a refugee caravan.
SW-User
The peer-reviewed psychological study referenced in this article sheds some light on conservatives having a predaliction and responsiveness to fear. Of course it’s science, which is often something eschewed by conservatives.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201612/fear-and-anxiety-drive-conservatives-political-attitudes

As far as the examples you seek:

[b]Fear[/b]
Trump on Mexicans:
[quote]When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
[/quote]

This is clearly an attempt to play to the fears of the base he was appealing to at the time. His intention was to fear monger. Clearly, it worked and continues to work.

[b]Lie[/b]

Trump’s claim that he’d be able to pay off the National Debt in 8 years. This was clearly a lie, and he clearly knew it. The ballet of bullshit that Trump spins here when O’Reilly pushed him on the National Debt is staggering. He actually says that eliminating the debt will be easy before he goes off sputtering into some cloudy false equivalency about the trade deficit and conflating it with the budget deficit.

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVT_eI6xdF0]

Republicans use fear and deception, because it is a proven psychological ploy to which conservatives are susceptible. If you don’t think your side uses fear to motivate, you’re kidding yourself. Democrats use it, as well. I live in Illinois, and for the last several months, both gubernatorial candidates have run a barrage of ads that are intended to do nothing more than stoke fear and motivate people to vote. This country is fearful and angry, and both political parties know it and play to it.

@Karlbodge
Steve42 · 56-60, M
They seem to be falling for Trumps dishonesty and fear about women and children seeking asylum.
Karlbodge · 22-25, M
@Steve42 Name one lie that Trump has told during this campaign.
Harriet03 · 41-45, F
@Karlbodge lock her up, the wall, everybody's going to be better off etc, etc, etc
Steve42 · 56-60, M
Obama's birth country.
curiosi · 61-69, F
Well take a look at their support.

Steve42 · 56-60, M
@curiosi [image deleted]
Karlbodge · 22-25, M
@curiosi I actually look like that. Why are you being so mean? We Republicans take the moral high ground and rise above insults.
pentacorn · F
you’re like a cheating spouse who becomes paranoid that you’ll be caught, so you accuse your faithful spouse of exactly what you’re guilty of, thereby revealing that you’re a NATZI BASTARD who SUCKS at reverse psychology.

actually this is just a flame bait presentation by an amateur troll. you wouldn’t make a decent pimple on a Natzi’s ass, lol...
Graylight · 51-55, F
Trump has told more lies per day in the last few months than he's ever told. He spreads fear so prusely its beginning to look like the bs it actually is.
Harriet03 · 41-45, F
@Graylight [image deleted]
Harriet03 · 41-45, F
Putin will decide again! So Dumb Donnie will be fine.
SwarmSona · F
nice meme

 
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