Fear is a driving emotion for many people. The fear-mongering is everywhere: TV, newspapers, schools, work, travel, etc. The interesting thing is, once you start to listen carefully, that the fear provocations are always followed by some statement about what someone is going to do for us (to us) to "help".
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And yet, the things that they are making people afraid of are largely nonsense. How many people in the US have been killed by Islamic terrorists? Compare that that to serious issues like heart disease or even the flu (which kills 40,000 people per year), and you can start to see some of the absurdity. Yet people accept it, and are somehow convinced that it's OK to spend trillions of dollars on a war and to kill more than a million people. For what? How can anyone possibly feel more secure after taking actions like those?
The same is true for the war on drugs: the US now has the largest number of people in prison of any country on the planet. The descent into fascism is what should be scary....
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