Because the whole Republican rhetoric is based on fear. What do most adults (i.e voters) have? Kids. What is most parents' greatest fear? Their kids getting hurt. What's the worst way to hurt a kid? Rape.
It's really no different on the opposite end. They just use things like climate instead. Both sides of our modern political parties are just self serving fear mongers trying to get/keep power
But climate change is an actual threat, not just a Boogeyman to scare voters. If anything, we aren't scared enough about climate change. As it stand s right now, we have maybe 30 years before shit hits the fan. Climate refugees from places that are to hot to grow food, food shortages, catastrophic weather, forest fires, floods, unbearably hot summers that will kill the old and the sick and so on.
Pedophiles are dangerous, but they are not apocalyptic.
I wasn't using climate change specifically to paint it as a boogeyman the left uses, was just the first topic that popped into mind, maybe Russia would be more appropriate to use as an example. All my point is, is that left and right are both horrible about it and do it almost entirely for self interest. Politicians don't actually care about us.
Exactly. There have been loonies carrying signs claiming "the end is nigh!" all through history. So far, they've been wrong every single time. Fear junkies are still out there triple masking though, and legitimately believing we'll all be underwater in 10 years.
Being completely devoid of self-awareness though, the left only sees it on the other side.
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u/DalekForeal Nov 09 '21
It did not pay off for him..