Selling Fear

Trump and his screaming family and bootlicking buddies stuck to the script last week at the RNC and continued selling fear and paranoia to Republican voters—and that’s it. They don’t have a plan, a vision, any ideas or inspiration. Just fear.

The playbook is simple: invent a threat, tell people to be afraid, then tell people you can save them from the invented threat (most recently, and this is hilarious, my wife got a text that said Biden is going to take away WOMEN’S SPORTS).

Over and over, without actual evidence, they said if Biden is elected, ___________ will be taken away. If Biden is elected, you won’t be safe. If Biden is elected, the country will fall into anarchy. Trump and his degenerate family and Republican friends did a great job of villainizing the other whoever or whatever that might be with fear-based prognosticating.

The thing is (and I don’t know how people miss this), Trump’s America is anarchy and he’s helped create it. His campaign ads show images of the country he is president of literally on fire. Riots. Protests. Violence. Not to say that wouldn’t be the case, with any other president, but I can’t imagine another human in that position pouring gas onto a fire like Donald Trump does. Never the less, last week, Republicans painted an even more grim picture of what the country will look like if “radical leftist” Joe Biden becomes president.

In an attempt to empathize, I started thinking about the times in my life where I was motivated by fear. I also thought about what life must be like…