What is the Right Wing's Number One Nightmare?

[stepnw1f]

I was just thinking about this, and figured it would be a good thing for a thread. Let's see what our perception of their number 1 fear(s) is.

What say you?

[DrDebug]

1. Fairness n/t

[SofaKingLiberal]

2. The truth. n/t

[FreedomAngel82]

18. I go for that one

Lots of things they don't want out there. People might not vote for republicans anymore.

[mmonk]

50. Bingo

[Dinger]

88. The Truth Coming Out And Biting Them In The Ass! nt

[jimshoes]

3. evidence

nt

[PWRinNY]

4. So many things

these scared selfish little people are afraid of. Hard to pick just one.

[MsLeopard]

5. President Hillary Clinton?

n/t

[Warpy]

12. No, they'd love that one

She's a conservative who'd give them whatever they wanted while they pilloried her in the press.

[MsLeopard]

15. How about President Al Gore?

[MrBenchley]

75. Yup...

They'd plotz.

[mtnsnake]

96. Without a doubt, and they're all worried to death that she can win

Whenever I've been out and about doing business, and I come across some rightwing nutcases, their faces become twisted, distorted, and turn beet red if I bring up Hillary's name. I don't let on that I'm a Democrat, and I almost always ask them very casually if they think she'd actually stand a chance at winning. Almost always, they shreek, "Oh god yes!!" as if it would be the end of the world for them.

[siddcnc]

6. Tolerance

Tolerance

[newyawker99]

94. Hi siddcnc!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Mme. Defarge]

7. Al Gore!

[Brundle_Fly]

16. exact.

well put.

[Mme. Defarge]

23. Next year,

after I am retired, I plan to work on his campaign.

[Brundle_Fly]

40. I wish I could join you...

the world needed him 8 years ago, now as we have passed through the looking glass, it is far more dire.

Good luck, on the campaign and on the retirement!

-a friendly canadian

[Mme. Defarge]

44. You wouldn't want to

take out U.S. citizenship, would you? We could use some help!

[Brundle_Fly]

58. with all the time I spend in NYC

I probably should.

[Mme. Defarge]

66. Hey!

It's a strategy for change -- bring your friends.

[YOY]

8. That the general public will look behind the curtain

and see the pathetic old white man pulling their strings.

[DanCa]

9. Me

I am a christian who wont drink the lifer cool aid, and will fight for this party to the death.
I am also a stem cell lobbyist who has actually been to a stem cell lab and knows what he's
talking about.
Riddle me this riddle me that whose afraid of my big black bat.

[B Calm]

10. our votes counted

[Warpy]

11. An honest voting system and an honest judiciary

Thoughts of either of them are the stuff of nightmares, and probably keep a lot of them downing Ambien.

[Twist_U_Up]

13. Levenworth n/t

[Brundle_Fly]

14. there is a million.

Siebel Edmunds starts to talk from her new home in Canada.

Abramoff books are discovered, with many photos inside pages

Bob Novak renounces his GOP membership returns to Judism and tells all in a new book

Rush Limbaugh and Bill OR'eilly killed in outrageously dangerous drunk driving accident

Cheney kidnapped.

911 exposed as internal job.

Osama, found in white house bunker.

etc etc

[Lorien]

17. Peace and prosperity; look at how insane they became during Clinton's

presidency. If they don't have something to alarm their mindless, bed wetting followers with then they are simply lost.

[stepnw1f]

82. Hey Lorein...

how's the art goin?

[John Q. Citizen]

19. Democrats getting subpoena powers n/t

[Democrats_win]

20. The future

[newswolf56]

21. The development of class-consciousness and a genuine...

workers' movement demanding real economic democracy -- "workers" being every one of us who is not independently wealthy.

Indeed all right-wing policy (which is to say all U.S. policy foreign and domestic) is formulated with precisely the intent of destroying all such efforts -- and even such notions -- the destruction further enforced by the (corporate-run) public school system and the (corporate run) mass media, not to mention corporate-dominated religion.

Nothing -- absolutely nothing -- is more terrifying to the oligarchy than the prospect of worker solidarity and the true economic democracy that would result.

[SomewhereOutThere424]

22. Here's my shot at it

They wake up one morning, and a cold glare doesn't send shivers down some random person's spine. They raise their voice, but the hapless bank teller or shop clerk doesn't tremble. They state their opinion, and nobody cares. People go on with their lives as if the fowl, unlikable attitude of the right wing doesn't mean anything in the world. They realize they have lost their power, the power to infuriate, frighten, and manipulate, and will have to live the rest of their lives in the very same mire of lack of job security, poor environment, lack of medical insurance, lack of pensions, they've aided in trying to 'pass onto the left'.

Their greatest nightmare is being forced to live as equals, and realizing that their callous and crude intentions won't get them liked, but possibly, even get them killed. Just like in the real world...where they belong, so they can be stomped on.

[spindrifter]

24. Having to pay higher

taxes to benefit the less able in society. This gets at the very core of their selfish world view.

[Rocknrule]

25. A president who is black, gay, female, and/or nonChristian

[FloridaPat]

26. repub party goes down in flames.

[Mme. Defarge]

27. Inflation

and/or a sex scandal involving Dubya.

Americans in general won't tolerate inflation, and the RW base would never tolerate a sex scandal involving their high priest.

[Kansas Wyatt]

28. Implementing the Fairness Doctrine.

Every single time some windbag right wing hack or politician gets on tv and whines about the "liberal" media, they should have the Fairness Doctrine thrown in their lap, followed by an invitation for them to publicly commit their full support to make sure the "liberal" media is forced to abide by the Fairness Doctrine.

[mandyky]

29. A REAL Fair and Free Press

They are threatening and extorting and bribing the media, esp. TV news channels.

BTW, a few weeks ago, I figured out what the right meant by liberal media - media that tells the truth about Republicans when they are wrong and won't admit it.

[Vogon_Glory]

31. Federal Anti-Trust Busting Up Murdoch's Fox News Empire eom

[Vogon_Glory]

30. Competent, Hardnosed Federal Prosecutors

I believe that some right-wingers wake up with cold sweats after dreaming that an angry American-style Peronist regime has come to power with hard-nosed federal prosecutors and hungry, angry investigators ready and eager to pore over their Corrupt-ican business records and send their sorry right-wing kiesters to the slammer.

[mtnester]

32. The Internet...period nt

[yknot]

33. Women who refuse to fake their orgasms n/t

[Catchawave]

34. Edwards/Feingold 2008

Just saying....:hi:

[PWRinNY]

35. I like this one

Full agreement here! :)

[Loge23]

36. Us waking up

Their biggest fear has to be the American people.
What if we (collectively) wake up? What if we finally stop believing every piece of BS that they toss at us?
The BS is working for them and they know it. This is the biggest fear for them - that it will all backfire someday.

[tinrobot]

37. Fair voting

(eom)

[PhilipShore]

38. President Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

[flvegan]

39. A true, non-partisan mainstream media.

The only reason those morans are in power is because of the inability of so many of us to disseminate information, question sources, seek-and-find facts and otherwise be un-fucking lazy about believing what we're fed.

[sweetheart]

41. After bush is impeached

Cheney has a heart attack and falls in to a coma on his
inauguration day. Then, as frist is being inaugurated,
he comes out of the closet, and declares his presidency
all about returning rights to gay people and women.

Frist then sets about cleansing all branches of government of
all straight men and women, leaving them mixed in the military
so that the GBLT leadership can toy around with the remaining
straight boys.

To free up money for all the new gay and lesbian community
outreach programmes, the military budget is cut back by 50%,
and the mini-skirt is declared the official mens dress of the
united states. The drugs war is ended, and all the out of
work republicans are interred in prison camps for unrepentent state felons.
These camps are supplied daily with truckloads of condoms and viagra
whilst the republican ex-wives head down to south america to join
the people's insurgency against US corporate tyranny.

:-)

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

42. That people will see them for the pathetic beings they are.

As Hannah Arendt described Eichmann, they epitomize "The banality of evil."

[Odin2005]

43. Socialism, a free press, a truely democratic society.

[kevinbgoode]

45. opening their mouth on a talk show to start one of their typical

tantrums, and they aren't able to talk.

[davekriss]

46. Number one? The truth (eom)

[Sabien]

47. when they realize...

...that George W. Bush really is the anti-christ

[RagAss]

49. He's too stupid to be the anti-christ......

[leftofthedial]

48. that the soup is cold

and the champagne is warm

[Pushed To The Left]

51. Checks and balances!

They control all branches of government, including the Supreme Court, but they behave like victims when those in the minority stand up for themselves. But this doesn't just apply to the government definition. The right wing fears the idea of checks and balances in all areas of life. They don't like it when the power of a landlord over a tenant is checked, or when there are limits to the power an employer has over an employee. Not having absolute, unchecked power is terrifying to the right wing.

[Catherine Vincent]

52. Hillary Clinton winning the presidency!

Or the Supremes allowing gays to marry one another.

[jab105]

53. A media that does its job...

n/t

[0007]

54. Most everything is wrapped up the Downing Street Memos

The Plame case. The NSA spy.

Did Jack Abramoff do war profiteering?

[mnhtnbb]

55. A free press

[slackmaster]

56. An African-American with a badge?

:shrug:

[bigjohn16]

57. An educated proletariat.

[Cobalt Violet]

73. My first thought too.

I didn't someone already said it.

[European Socialist]

59. A repentant Karl Rove spilling his guts.

[Initech]

60. Not being able to exploit Christianity for thier own political gain

[agincourt]

61. Every person in this country ,

who makes under a 100K to say, "Damn you GOPig liars, you've fooled us for too long, you're going down with a thud."

[gulliver]

62. Fitzpatrick investigating

o Abramoff
o Spygate

[mitchtv]

63. Speaker Nancy Pelosi

majority leader Harry Reid

[pinto]

64. The details. They are ideologues, relying on jingoism to garner votes, all

the while ignoring the details of their jobs, the details of the issues, the details of the law, the details of the electorate and the details of the world they seem intent on "transforming".

They are failing across the board because they see details as an inconvenience.

[kwyjibo]

65. proof that god doesn't exist?

[NuttyFluffers]

67. Oprah converts to islam, comes out as a lesbian, runs for politics.

rich, successful, respected, muslim, lesbian black woman gunning for more power on the side of good in the realm of politics. or something like that.

too bad i'm not oprah. :evilgrin:

[stepnw1f]

68. sharing (nt)

[rman]

69. the awakening of "the beast" (which would be "us")

[moondust]

70. Real accountability.

[ComerPerro]

71. I've asked conservatives about this, and here's what I've been told

They are most afraid of:

A large, powerful central government taking over people's lives and infringing on their rights. Also, they are afraid of said government using wasteful practices and spending the country into deficit.

Apparently that's why they vote for Republicans...

[Cobalt Violet]

72. Education.

An educated populace.

[Tesha]

74. The Guillotine.

If the rubes ever figure out how badly they've been used
in order to advance the positionof the wealthy, it would
be the guillotine for sure; it could be set up right at
the Washington Monument (or maybe even the steps of the
Capitol?) and televised live on national TV.

Tesha

[DelawareValleyDem]

76. That there really will be a Judgement Day (nt

[laruemtt]

77. a thinking, caring electorate. n/t

[gollygee]

78. People who are not easily manipulated.

[meow2u3]

79. A NEOprogressive movement

that will make Teddy Roosevelt's Progressive reforms, FDR's New Deal, and the civil rights gains look like child's play by comparison. Business cheats, some of whom do business with enemy nations and/or terrorists, will have absolutely nowhere to hide

[pearl]

83. Their greatest Nightmare?

That every eligible voter in the US Votes, and every vote counted. That would be a Revolution.

[myrna minx]

80. Universal Healthcare. n/t

[EstimatedProphet]

81. An empowered labor class

[Mutley]

84. Losing power.

All who gain great power are afraid to lose it.

[FlaGranny]

85. Greatest fear is

"government of the people, by the people, for the people."

[mattclearing]

86. A DIY populace.

People who make their own goods and services and sell independently cut corporate America out of the economy.

[bunkerbuster1]

87. Gays kissing in public.

I'm convinced that a plurality (not necessarily a majority) of RWers are terrified of having to explain that to "the children."

[Marie26]

89. Change.

Losing control of things & letting those femi-nazis, hippies, & radicals change America (they think) for the worse. I think they're really find w/letting Bush take as much power & control as he wants if they think it will stop social change from occuring.

[SaveElmer]

90. Hillary Clinton...

The only candidate who has the experience to go toe to toe with the Republicans and their sleaze tactics!

[AgadorSparticus]

91. accountability.

[izzybeans]

92. All of the above plus these...(gender specific)

Caught twiddling their silly string in public in front of the youngin's. (male version)
Caught by husband in bed with a liberal female, the bedding of a conservative female by a radical feminist lesbian is no fear, its fantasy, the fear is in getting found out (female version)
Caught with shell off and circuits showing (Ann Coulter version)

[drbtg1]

93. A democratic congress with subpoena power

It really takes the fun out of conducting republican crimes.

[Hubert Flottz]

95. Getting kicked out of office and paying for their crimes against...

their own country and the world!