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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2016-07-29 07:09 pm

[ SECRET POST #3495 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3495 ⌋

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Re: US Election

(Anonymous) 2016-07-30 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
Are you honestly telling me that your fears are valid and their fears are not? Are you really doing that?

Fear is fear.

Re: US Election

(Anonymous) 2016-07-30 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
Fears are fears, sure, but they can be grounded in more or less reasonable projections about the future.

For instance, "Trump could pull us out of NATO" is not a particularly unreasonable possibility given his generally pro-Russian foreign policy stances and his specific comments about Eastern European allied countries. In contrast, talking about how the country is completely lawless is a less reasonable claim given factual statistics about crime rates.

Pointing out that your opponent is going to do bad things which will have bad consequences is not fearmongering. Fearmongering is when you reach a sustained pitch of doing that, and it's detached from reasonable views of the situation at hand, and it's a significant part of your appeal. In my opinion anyway.

Re: US Election

(Anonymous) 2016-07-30 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
Fearmongering is when you reach a sustained pitch of doing that, and it's detached from reasonable views of the situation at hand, and it's a significant part of your appeal.

So basically like the media's handling of Trump's candidacy?

Re: US Election

(Anonymous) 2016-07-30 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
To a certain extent. Although one, I think the tenor of media coverage of Trump has been less fear, and more shock/outrage/bewilderment at his playing outside the lines of American political custom, which they just don't know how to respond to. And two, I think a certain amount of negative expectation is honestly justified.