Why do people still beleive in the Boogie Man?

[circa02]

YouTube - Spike Lee Explains How Hollywood Works With The Military Industrial Complex To Create Boogie Men

 

[DaisyDay]

It is easier to deal with fear and anxiety when that can be embodied in something concretely defined such as a boogie man.

 

[chaz345]

Just for the record, boogie men are not, as I'm sure some on the left would assert, solely the tactic of the right or the millitary industrial complex. 'They're trying to take away your Social Security' or 'Cuts in social services will put millions out on the street" are boogie men too.

 

[grasping the after wind]

I though George Bush was the boogie man.

 

[circa02]

Seriously though, you have a better chance of dying in your car by getting crushed by a falling plane then killed by terrorists.

 

[grasping the after wind]

Seriously though, you have a better chance of dying in your car by getting crushed by a falling plane then killed by terrorists.

But it will be Bush's fault if it happens.

 

[DaisyDay]

Seriously though, you have a better chance of dying in your car by getting crushed by a falling plane then killed by terrorists.

Common enemy rallies the troops. It's effective.

 

[keith99]

The Boogie man is real. He was a professional wrestler who ate worms. I've seen him!

 

[Wolseley]

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[tulc]

You can't kill the boogie man!

tulc(big Halloween fan!)

 

[new_wine]

Why do people still beleive in the Boogie Man?

It is easier than standing up for yourself and using thought and common sense.

YouTube - Spike Lee Explains How Hollywood Works With The Military Industrial Complex To Create Boogie Men

 

[meh]

Just for the record, boogie men are not, as I'm sure some on the left would assert, solely the tactic of the right or the millitary industrial complex. 'They're trying to take away your Social Security' or 'Cuts in social services will put millions out on the street" are boogie men too.

Really? Because they're getting ready to vote on the GOP plan to shove the elderly and disabled into a voucher insurance program which would mean either premiums would be so high nobody could afford them (but the wealthy, of course) OR that they wouldn't cover anything if you could get them. Calling the GOP the party of throwing sick granny and the paraplegic next door under the bus to make insurance companies even richer doesn't seem very 'boogie man' like. Seems pretty accurate.

 

[Ishraqiyun]

Good video.

 

[chaz345]

Really? Because they're getting ready to vote on the GOP plan to shove the elderly and disabled into a voucher insurance program which would mean either premiums would be so high nobody could afford them (but the wealthy, of course) OR that they wouldn't cover anything if you could get them. Calling the GOP the party of throwing sick granny and the paraplegic next door under the bus to make insurance companies even richer doesn't seem very 'boogie man' like. Seems pretty accurate.

I strongly suspect that you are greatly exaggerating the results of the legislation in question. You know like how the left decried the Welfare Reform Act and being certain to have thousands or millions out in the street on bread lines.

 

[grasping the after wind]

Really? Because they're getting ready to vote on the GOP plan to shove the elderly and disabled into a voucher insurance program which would mean either premiums would be so high nobody could afford them (but the wealthy, of course) OR that they wouldn't cover anything if you could get them. Calling the GOP the party of throwing sick granny and the paraplegic next door under the bus to make insurance companies even richer doesn't seem very 'boogie man' like. Seems pretty accurate.

Thank you for being so accommodating in making your post a perfect example of the leftist version of the "boogie man" syndrome.

 

[Received]

People respond more immediately to emotional imagery. The media feast on it as a way of supporting ratings. It takes considerable effort and/or philosophical reasoning to learn to perceive things realistically by reorganizing your thoughts. The boogie man is always an astronomical possibility that the emotions paint as a commonplace reality.

 

[Ishraqiyun]

I wonder who the next boogie man will be. I think it will be "The Muslims" for a while but eventually that will get old and they will need something new.

 

[grasping the after wind]

I wonder who the next boogie man will be. I think it will be "The Muslims" for a while but eventually that will get old and they will need something new.

They've already moved on to "the rich"

 

[Ishraqiyun]

They've already moved on to "the rich"

So they are making themselves out to be the boogie man. Thats and odd tactic.

 

[grasping the after wind]

So they are making themselves out to be the boogie man. Thats and odd tactic.

The Muslims are making themselves out to be the boogie man? That is odd.