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Originally Posted by FoolThemAll
To your question: no, it's not fine. But as I understand it, they didn't say that dems are going to ban the Bible. If they did, okay then; they were wrong to do it. If it was hyperbole as I imagine it was, that's wrong as well, but to a lesser degree.
And I said nothing about employment or protection from crime. I was speaking of gay marriage alone.
If McCarthy had good reason to believe what he said about the level of infiltration, then he did not use scare tactics. Perhaps we have different ideas of what a scare tactic constitutes; I consider dishonesty to be part of it.
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They put a picture of the bible with "Banned" stamped across it, and put it as the goal of the Democrats. I'm not sure how much clearer you can be.
We have no way of knowing what went on in the man's head, nor what any of the current leaders of the Republican Party have going through theirs.
I did notice that you were careful to qualify your statement about McCarthy, but not about Republican leaders. You assume that the Republican attacks on gays are because they legitimately believe their own words, but yet you don't extend the same benefit of the doubt to Mr. McCarthy. Why is this?
I prefer not to debate what a person does or doesn't think inside their head, as I have no way to know anyway. What I can go off of is what they say and how it fits into the situation.
Republican attacks on gays by portrayal of them as representing a threat to our society and culture is indeed a scare tactic. So is Democratic portrayals of the Bush Doctrine respresenting a threat to a peaceful, cooperative global community.
Both are definitely feared amongst their respective groups. Even the leaders making those portrayals may legitimately believe them. And ultimately they may well be true. But they are still scare tactics.