Find Out What’s Driving The Birthers, Deathers And Fringers

What a strange world, from Presidential birth certificate conspiracy theorists to a Congresswoman calling the administration a gangster government. Why are people behaving this way? It is insecurity, find out where it comes from and who is pushing it.

Something is amiss in the fabric of our great country and it is not just a deep recession. There are sign of a deep cultural divide that has some teetering on the edge of paranoia. The ultimate other apparently has landed in out midst and he is plotting to hand over our nation to the enemy like an overripe fruit. Never mind that President Barack Obama was elected by almost 70,000,000 Americans in a resounding victory over Republican John McCain.

Is this some form of mass hypnosis that has taken hold of a sizable portion of the population? No, this is the execution of a plan to exploit the fears of a segment of citizens for political gain and profit. Dog whistles and code words are flying around and some take them to heart. Throwing around terms like socialist, Marxist and gangster government are designed to create fear in the mind of some. The message is that they are coming to get you. This gang led by a President with a Muslim name wants to take your money, freedom and guns.

This type of fear mongering has turned into a cottage industry and those peddling speeches, books and television shows that pander to those feeling have become wealthy. An article titled “Sarah Palin's Earnings Over 9 Months Estimated at $12 Million” by Brian Montopoli April 13, 2010 and published on the CBS News website details Sarah Palin’s earnings from speeches and books over the first 9 months after she resigned as Governor of Alaska. Glenn Beck, Mike Huckabee and others are also fattening their bank accounts by selling fear to the fearful.

Let’s cut to the chase, some feel they are losing their deserved place in the pecking order of America as the economy changes and demographics shift. It is one of the oldest techniques in the world to sow fear and division to gain power and profit.