The campaign of fear triumphs

Bush won. Who would have imagined that he would make such a clean sweep? People are fickle. People felt sad for Saddam when he was captured you know? Bush's campaign of fear worked. He ensured, through his campaign, that people's power of reasoning was numbed, nullified and rendered impotent. When you are scared witless, you don't weigh pros and cons, you don't think about what is right or wrong. You just run for cover or to people who promise it. America is no different. America has proved that people are people. You can never change the way they feel. No matter how advanced a society you are, at the core, you are but human.
Elections are won not by logic, compassion, or credibility. They are won by manipulating (mutilating if need be) perception; by fear of loss, and not by hope of gain. God bless America.
As conspiracy theories go, they'll remain just that: theories. Whether Osama's video-that surfaced right before the elections-was planted or not is debatable. Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 exposed Bush. Everyone with some juice between their ears should have, would have voted for Kerry. But they did not. So, when it comes to elections, you never know, for people are strange.
I mean look here, some people are gloating about Bobby Jindal winning the election and making it to the house. Bobby who? Oh yes, we are a strange lot.

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