The culture of fear

 Been reading way too much recently about how we're headed into a Great Depression and/or civil war. Sorry, but I'm data-driven, and relatively resistant to fear-mongering. We are far from metaphysical perfection, but we're not a hellscape, either. Of course, I don't watch Fox News, so there's that.

"There are two things we can do about this culture of fear. First, liberals need to avoid going down the same rabbit hole as conservatives. We’re not close to that yet, but there’s not much question that we’ve been moving in that direction. It needs to stop.

Second, and most important, we need to mount some kind of broad, aggressive battle against Fox News. This obviously needs to be a fully private battle, and it needs to be waged in every possible way. We can boycott advertisers. We can pressure cable companies. We can air commercials that take on the fear machine. We can even compromise on some of the political positions that conservatives find most unnerving.

In general, we need to do everything we can to reduce the fear that conservatives have of liberal rule. You may think this is unfair: why should it be our responsibility to do this? But that’s politics. Our job is to win converts, and fair or not, this is the way to do it." https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2021/01/heres-how-to-fix-whats-wrong-with-the-united-states/?fbclid=IwAR2Lq1iVrWdq8f8ssXtSlHfBf9wOvbO9PUmeMtCJ5T7Wd7r3ryfy0QJ3hpg