Columns, Opinion

Editor’s Column: The politics of fear

Fear is a terrible—and terribly effective—way to manipulate people. If you can make a people group afraid, you can make them react, and if you can make them react, you can control them.

If there’s a divisive or contentious topic on the table for public debate, it’s sure to be accompanied by fear-based campaigns from all sides. 

I’d like to think there was a time when we were more logical, when we made decisions…