Politics of Fear Quotes
Note that he in this quotation extended the Eisenhower “Military-Industrial Complex” threat to include the anti Terrorism government agencies (Homeland Security, FBI, NSA. CIA) and the corporations which support and supply them.
In all countries, many politicians play to this human weakness and tend to alarm the public. It is harder for the body politic to believe a positive narrative even if true; easy to believe a negative narrative even when false and deliberately exaggerated.
At the time of this article there was noting illegal in most states about some third party with no connection with a candidate or a campaign whatsoever, to describe a candidate and his/her opposition and just like a campaign in a direct-mail solicitation, ask for funds to help the candidate win. They just pocked the money and never help the candidate. In the most egregious cases the same outfit send solicitations to Democrats and Republicans for the SAME contest with different appeals so they can deceptively collect money from supports of both candidates and help neither—only enrich themselves. Scare tactics, like saying an opponent wants to reduce Social Security benefits or increase Medicare charges, are particularly difficult to identify as so much right wing direct mail uses scare tactics the raise funds for campaigns. The left does also, but not as frequently adn they are not as good at it.
At the time, General Flynn was campaigning as a part of the Donald Trump Campaign Team. There was a great deal of Islamaphobia and Flynn and Trump thoght that given the history of Radical Islamic Brutality and Gross Violence, the rear was reasonable. Critics however pointed out that while some Southernors were still violent White Supremicists leaders should not encoruage a fear of Southerners. They argue that the fear should be of extreme radical Muslims, and not Muslims in general. The generalization of fear to all people of any group for the actions of a small subset of the group is actually dangerous and leads to prejudice, feal, hate and often violence such as when many American Blacks feared all pol;ice in the beginning of the 21st century becasue dozens of police officers short and killed unarmed black men,, or the West Cast American fear of the Japanese in WWII, or the terrible result--the Holocaust-- of many Germans' fear and hate of Jews for the "trangressions" of some. All human groups have some bad souls within the greater body of good people--including Muslims.
