The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself
If history is our teacher, what have we learned?
If history is our teacher, what kind of students (if any) are we now? Are we too afraid of Trump’s yarn-spinning…
“… nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”
— Franklin Delano Roosevelt
… that we elect him in the hopes of appeasing a neurotic narcissist and his cult into a retreat? Will fear twist reason to deter a reprisal of a January 6th, 2021 minion-driven attempted coup d’é·tat?
Or? Are we now too wise to Trump’s dark arts that we’ll invert the 1984 electorial map into a blue tsunami to wash away any doubt of who’ll be our next elected president. According to census.gov:
MAY 2, 2023 — Voter turnout for the 2022 U.S. congressional elections was the second highest for a nonpresidential election year since 2000, with 52.2% of the citizen voting-age population participating. Registration rates were the highest for a midterm election since 2000, with 69.1% of the citizen voting-age population registered to vote, up 2.2 percentage points from 66.9% in 2018, according to Current Population Survey (CPS) data…