"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."-- H.L. Mencken
Keep everyone in fear or the other negative emotions which makes them submissive, blocks thinking, intuition, and the truth.
"Politics of Fear"
Keep everyone in fear or the other negative emotions which makes them submissive, blocks thinking, intuition, and the truth.