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Politicians are the least trusted group of people in the United States. For good reason, too. Today we see politicians on the “left” block social reform and environmental infrastructure expenditures. We see politicians on the “right” ignore cries of “My Body, My Choice” when women protest for their right to autonomy, then turn around and commandeer the same argument when anti-maskers protest for their right to autonomously endanger other people. The hypocrisy knows no bounds because it’s driven by a single, blindingly powerful force: hatred of the enemy.
Politicians benefit from fostering a constant state of fear to coerce support from their base. As journalist H.L. Mencken said over a century ago:
“The whole aim of politics is to keep the people alarmed — and hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, almost all of them imaginary.” — H.L. Mencken
But the world is not all doom and gloom!
