August 22, 2010

Politicians Use Fear

This essay condemns use of fear to motivate people. But isn't that what Obama and all politicians do all of the time?
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) "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."

http://www.prwatch.org/node/9349

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