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Originally Posted by Red Slinger
A thread about the federal election has become a conversation about Canada's potential involvement with a ISIS. In the grand scheme of things ISIS is relatively insignificant to Canada but now it's being discussed thoroughly here instead of what, IMO, should be much more important and pressing issues to Canadians. That's how scare tactics work and why many politicians like to bring up ISIS or other boogeymen. So I guess Harper has succeeded in distracting us a little bit at least.
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To quote a famous general
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Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear — kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor — with the cry of grave national emergency … Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.
General Douglas MacArthur, 1957
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It's a tactic used a lot by politicians who would much rather focus people's attention external problems so people don't look closer at the internal problems these politicians caused in the first place.