“I say of all dangers to a nation, as things exist in our day, there can be no greater one than having certain portions of the people set off from the rest by a line drawn – they are not privileged as others, but degraded, humiliated, made of no account.” –Walt Whitman
At one time, the political right scapegoated “Communism” and the “Communists”, claiming they used scare tactics to recruit members into its organizations and bring donations in to fill its war chests.
But since the decline of global Communism and the fall of the Soviet Union, right-wingers have needed other villains to scapegoat to further their own political agendas and to scare their voters into turning out for local and national elections.
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