Reply #98: Actually, I think our leaders WANT people to be afraid.

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Scared people are so easy to control!

I think the worst enemy of rational thinking is blind allegiance to a leader. I have voted republican for president many times. I even voted for Junior in 2000. But then he went too far. I realized I couldn't follow him, even though his followers had so many viewpoints in common with me.

His followers will not listen to any criticism of him whatsoever. They also refuse to believe that a former republican supporter could suddenly find Bush to be so evil, so corrupt, so destructive, that the person couldn't support him any more. Well, whether they believe it or not, it's true. I know, b/c it happened to me.