Bogeymen

Notably, in recent years, SPLC appeals based on white supremacy bogeymen have also lost their luster because, well, attacks linked to white supremacy are very rare.

Social media is the latest in a long list of bogeymen parents and officials have blamed over the years for corrupting the country’s youth It’s a list that has included things like heavy metal, video games, and marijuana.

Khan’s remarks highlight reasonable fears about bogeymen lurking across our economy.

This not a problem being perpetuated by the "right wing" bogeymen.

Even as they promise better times, the leaders develop a siege mentality by finding bogeymen – refugees, migrants, Mexicans, Muslims, neighboring nations, Romas and so on.

Take a look at Hungary, where Viktor Orbán has the Central European University and almost destroyed the country’s free press and most other liberal institutions, using immigrants and George Soros as bogeymen.

If his subjects were varied (snowmen, bogeymen, nuclear war), his stories always stayed close to home; his childhood home in Wimbledon, in fact, reappears over and over.

One would think that with all the cultural leftist and media preening about social mindfulness of others, the nightly news narratives about Russia and other foreign bogeymen would illustrate this context for viewers.

The generals’ speeches, usually replete with threats against “destructive elements” and “foreign stooges”, invite parody, and Burmese people delight in mocking their leaders’ child-like obsession with political bogeymen.