The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
People are afraid of an unorganized, wasteful government.
Governments sometimes turn paranoid. And they fear things. And sometimes the thing they fear the most is the populace.
The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole, may encroach on the states, which represent the peculiar and local interests, or that the latter may encroach on the former.
Individual people shouldn't be fearful, because by and large our government, the federal government - people always talk; obviously, they don't trust the feds, whatever. The federal government and local communities have done a pretty good job at keeping us safe.
Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.
I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.
Public fear isn't something to be played with.
Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.
Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.