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by Buck • 1:04 pm
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When the White House uses advertising specialists to instill in our minds terrifying visual images of mushroom clouds above American cities, American psychologists should be concerned, to say the least. When our chief executive dwells yet again on “death and destruction” in a speech he makes as we observe the sixth anniversary of our national trauma–and tells us that if we hinder his war policy, our enemies will “come here to kill us”–it’s time for professionals who know about the effects of psychological trauma to speak up.
-Dr. Martha Stout, The Huffington Post
Bush fearmonger
Dr. Stout asks; “Is our president a scaremonger?”, and proceeds to answer that question by listing ten behaviors observable historically in leaders who have used fear to keep people in line.
How did dear leader rate? Read the article!
