Threat construction

It's purpose
It is a way to unify both black-opps, mind-games, villifaction of a specific group or related groups, smear campinging, doomongering, scaremongering, propaganda, false news sites and genuine public moral concerns on Wedge issues and political cleavage in to a joint way of causing the belief that their is a major enemy from with-in, subversive group, criminal entity and\or oversees threat, which the advocate and it's cronies are uniquely qualified to prevent with the use of mostly unconstitutional, divisive, radicalised and almost always dictatorial methods.

It's usage
It has been used through out history, as Hitler and Lenin can testify to, but it became a huge phenomena in the Cold War. The ruling elites in America and the USSR used it a lot in the early 1950s and early 1960s to further their own personal power and stoke-up hatred towards the other side.

The Arabs, sub-Saharan African states and Latin Americans used it often between the early 1950s and the late 1970s. The unpopular leaders would play a mixture of anti-colonialist, anti-revolutionary and nationalist propaganda to justify their continued rule.

Revolutionaries often played they anti-elitist, anti-colonialist, anti-repression and suppressing fake or deliberately induced counter-subversives as a cover for taking over and not going away.

Coup leaders also use national ecanomic salvation, preventing neo-colonialism, preempting foreign intrigues and suppressing fake or deliberately induced subversives as a cover for taking over and not going away.

The number of real communist, Zionist, Arab-nationalist, fascist and capitalist plots were much less than the lying leaders and revolutionaries would let us think they were.

Examples


1/ Stalin's purges, Saddam's 1979 Baath Party purge and House Committee on Un-American Activities were both a way to maintain a rule by fear and the pinnacle of a threat construction plan that left people thinking there was a massive an ultra-covert plot to oust the regime under way.

Saddam's naming of innocent people as well as guilty ones achieved 7 things at once:
 * 1) It go rid of his rivals.
 * 2) It terrified everyone both at home and abroad.
 * 3) It made him look as if he and his cronies had attained special knowledge about a ultra-covert plot to remove the Baath Party.
 * 4) It helped boost Saddam's huge ego.
 * 5) It ensured loyalty via fear of being stitched up by Saddam and his cabal.
 * 6) It made him look macho both at home and abroad.
 * 7) It extended his and his cronies' personal power in Iraq.

2/ The UK was, by the year 2010, largly Eurosceptic in nature. Brexit was soon hijacked by UKIP so it swerved from a political-corporate debate on sovereignty, the Common Agricultural Plan (CAP), the Euro (€), trade and ecanomic decline to a UKIP- Eurosceptic Conservative (Tory) back bencher lead rant that blamed free trade for the EU, the EU for all immigrants, all immigrants for the UK decline and Germany for all EU policies. The British population soon became xenophobic, vote for Brexit and killed several Poles over the following months.

Public panic, protests and riots
As the pro-Brexit lobby, President Deturte's victory, President Maduro's victory and Trump's victory show, if is used to whip up a crowd of frightened, economically devastated, gullible, prejudiced, desperate, ill educated or paranoid people then a politician can land slide to victory in a sea of public fear; possibly even dictatorship. They then stay in office via a mix of lies, trickery, intimidation and fear. There offical police units, unofficial thug units or a poorly educated, fanatical, radicalised and easily misled mob then enforce their will on rivals to ensure power will not change.

Also see

 * 1) Europe
 * 2) Middle East
 * 3) Popularisum
 * 4) Stalin's purges
 * 5) South America
 * 6) Time line of Iraq
 * 7) False news sites
 * 8) European Union
 * 9) A political diorama
 * 10) "Reds under the bed"
 * 11) Cold War radio propaganda
 * 12) Politically Fascist and/or Nazi
 * 13) Kent State University Shootings
 * 14) Eurosceptics and "Little Englanders"
 * 15) Wedge issues and political cleavage
 * 16) Politically Communist and/or Socialist
 * 17) How to tell your election was rigged!?
 * 18) How Governments become Authoritarian
 * 19) House Committee on Un-American Activities
 * 20) Directory of all Indochinese wars in the Cold War
 * 21) World War Three: Inside the War Room (BBC Two war sim')
 * 22) "London's Burning" (the political epithet, not the UK TV show)


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