The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself

If history is our teacher, what have we learned?

Soul Dancer, Soul University
Thought Thinkers
Published in
3 min readJun 9, 2024

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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…

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