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<blockquote data-quote="refineryworker05" data-source="post: 4709368" data-attributes="member: 66082">I don&#039;t know if the instill fear thing is true.&nbsp; I think gop voters do see millions of other Americans as a huge threat.&nbsp; But I am telling you this fear thing and seeing other Americans as a threat is a thing that goes beyond the gop.&nbsp; So, I don&#039;t know if that fear comes from gop political messaging.&nbsp; I mean the gop is taping into a preexisting belief system within the American body politic.For an example, I remember when Obama was president and they were phasing out certain types of light bulbs because they were crap basically. I remember the anger and outrage from coworkers who were conservative in their outlook but not all were republicans at how light bulbs were changing, and now in part due to government regulations light bulbs last much longer and are better and no one says anything about how radical it was Obama wanted to change light bulbs.&nbsp; Yet at the time it was a real outrage amongst Americans mainly the gop. this is that fear mindset where many Americans go from outrage after outrage to minor changes and I think this outrage is evidence of this deeper preexisting fear in America.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="refineryworker05, post: 4709368, member: 66082"] I don't know if the instill fear thing is true. I think gop voters do see millions of other Americans as a huge threat. But I am telling you this fear thing and seeing other Americans as a threat is a thing that goes beyond the gop. So, I don't know if that fear comes from gop political messaging. I mean the gop is taping into a preexisting belief system within the American body politic. For an example, I remember when Obama was president and they were phasing out certain types of light bulbs because they were crap basically. I remember the anger and outrage from coworkers who were conservative in their outlook but not all were republicans at how light bulbs were changing, and now in part due to government regulations light bulbs last much longer and are better and no one says anything about how radical it was Obama wanted to change light bulbs. Yet at the time it was a real outrage amongst Americans mainly the gop. this is that fear mindset where many Americans go from outrage after outrage to minor changes and I think this outrage is evidence of this deeper preexisting fear in America. [/QUOTE]

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