Proposed.

Our current politics are all about fear, both on the left and the right. It is perfectly reasonable for people to be afraid now. But the problem with fear is that the solution always seems to be to make the thing that one fears, fear one in return. This is why fear is deeply corrupting. And deeply addictive.

unagidon is a contributing editor to Commonweal.

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