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Originally Posted by zuluking
So Danielle Smith tends to libertarianism and believes in conscience "rights", yet you want her to decry someone for not believing what she believes, regardless of how obvious it may be you, me or her. If she did that, she would then be all those things you're attributing to her here. Instead, you're making up scenarios for her that would require her to actually compromise what she believes in as a governing philosophy. Her approach now is far more courageous (regardless of whether you agree or not - or choose to see it, for that matter.)
To me fearmongering is taking the implausible or impossible and using that as absolutely plausible and possible to scare people into thinking the way you want them to think. There is no basis in fact, like fiscal numbers not adding up or sheer ability (time, resources) to deliver on a promise. It is pure fiction and this is what the PCs are using as a tactic, like the federal Liberals "hidden agenda" and "guns in the street" ads. Drawing an analogy to what was done in prior federal elections is not fearmongering. It's just calling a spade, a spade.
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So you're saying standing up for biggots is courageous? I mean I guess in a sick way it kind of is. But standing up for repression to me is not courageous. I appreciate her "libertarianism" (worst term in politics FYI), but she's not decrying hate speech. Thats cowardly to me. If we don't stand up to hate speech, it will only perpetuate.
And screaming about a hidden agenda from the others is designed for one purpose: To stoke fear in your party members. "See, those liberals hate us conservatives! Lets show them!". And the Wildrose ads I've seen for senate are so hilariously awful. They don't actually all advertise the senate candidate, most just say "Vote Wildrose for Seneate and send the PCs a message". Now thats not fear mongering, but its attempting to appeal to people's emotions, which is just as bad. Politics should involved logic and rationality, not emotion. How many good decisions are made in life on emotion?