If you run into a crowded theater and start screaming about a fire, then people will act in life-preserving ways. They’ll seek the nearest exit and attempt to leave. Suggestions will be made to call the authorities to help and deference will be given to them when they arrive.
People may try to maintain their calm, but if the person delivering the message is pushing panic and urgency hard enough, that panic will migrate from person to person, sometimes resulting in more injury from peers than the fire itself.
However, if there is no fire and a person disrupted the evening of innocent people and caused them to potentially harm themselves in a panic, then the person who shouted “fire” won’t exactly be people’s favorite person. He will become something of a pariah and heartily distrusted by the community. While there aren’t actually any laws about shouting “fire” in a theater, the court of public opinion will find the person guilty of being a complete douchebag and sentenced to never having his word taken seriously again.
Let’s take this metaphor and apply it to people who have been shouting “fire” for some time.
The Democrat Party is notorious for attempting to get people to panic out of pure fear. The longest and largest example is, of course, the threat of global warming…or global cooling…or climate change. Whichever scary phrase fits at the moment.
At least once or twice a year, we’re subjected to someone standing in front of a camera and telling everyone that unless we hand over power to the government and allow them to regulate everything from top to bottom, then we’re all going to die in five years…or nine years…or 15 years. Whichever number sounds scary at the moment.
As Harris Alic wrote at Fox News, Democrats have only kicked this climate doomsaying into high gear thanks to the Democrat’s inability to pass legislation thanks to public infighting:
Last week, 60 House Democrats echoed the message when calling on Biden to declare a national emergency on climate change. The move would allow the White House to mobilize emergency powers to lower carbon emissions.
“If we don’t really begin to lower emissions, this planet has no chance,” Rep. Alan Lowenthal, D-Calif, said recently. “We have a few years left and that’s it. The planet is dying.”
Democrats have also tried to capitalize on the recent heatwave besieging the East Coast as proof that climate change is getting worse and dire action is needed.
They want Biden to declare a climate emergency because with that they can begin to consolidate power and push radical policies, hopefully without too much pushback from the legal system.
We saw how far they’re willing to take that with the Coronavirus pandemic which saw many blue state governors lock down their states for absurd lengths of time with only a destroyed economy and vacated state to show for it. The Biden White House attempted to force private businesses to inject their workers with a vaccine that doesn’t work.
None of the policies pushed by Democrats during the pandemic actually helped anyone but the companies creating these “vaccines” and the bureaucrats that were pushing policy on the American people.
But the point wasn’t to help, the point was to control.
It’s not a tinfoil hat moment to believe that there are some people out there who have ambitions for little more than money and power. They run for office for that goal, and in order to get you to do what they want, all they have to do is yell “fire” in our crowded theater. The goal is to make you behave as they believe you should, as you doing so makes them more powerful and possibly more wealthy.
It’s that simple. The politics of fear is a control and command kind of politics, and for it to work all you have to do is agree to be afraid.
