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COMMENT: ‘Politics of fear’ seen as discounting energy politics

10/22/2007
Washington politics is no longer about issues. It is about fear. To succeed, a politician has to play on the public’s fears, most of all fear of terrorism and fear of global warming.Republicans capitalized on fear of terrorism in 2002 and 2004 to win national elections. Democrats chose fear of global warming, and they have experienced political success with it. Strangely enough, both groups, riding a platform of fear, come to the same conclusion: Oil is the enemy. For Republicans, oil finances terrorism. For Democrats, oil causes global warming. For both, dependence on oil is a disaster in the making.A third group, mostly but not exclusively Democrats with neoconservative attitudes-...
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