It wasn't the Left that brought us McCarthyism, the Satanic Panic, the screaming panics about gay marriage, or reviled horror of illegal immigrants with no attempts to actually improve immigration laws. They also didn't bring us "Better dead than red!", though they sure seem to have adopted it (albeit with a different form of "red"). This isn't one-sided.

Fear and anger are the easiest ways to control the masses. Anger makes you want to act and keeps you from thinking clearly; fear makes you want to hide and keeps you from thinking at all. Remember those two sentences and 98% of politics will suddenly make sense.

Yes, don't buy into the fear mongering over AI and data centres. Instead buy into the fear mongering over Iran and illegal aliens 🤔 Make it make sense.

If only you could understand statistics.

It's been a regular occurrence for each side to use tactics that it says with horror that the opposition uses. Critical thinking is the only way through.

While indulging in fear-mongering itself...

Those three words are not even synonyms, though Power does involve Control and may use Fear as method.

And yet another example of how one extreme always accuses the other extreme of doing what they are in the process of doing. In order to avoid actual discussion of any issue and dealing with the reality that truth is probably somewhere in between.