RichC,
I agree...to a point.
To live in fear is to be manipulated.
But BOTH parties use fear to motivate their bases.
Liberals use the fear that a Christian candidate will impose his views in their bedrooms.
Democrats continually use fear of SS going bankrupt to motivate the elderly--but then they never solve the problem. If they actually fixed SS, they could no longer use it to dfearfully manipulate the elderly.

There are more examples, and I don't wish to make lists to see which party uses fear more than the other.
Its enough to say that Fear is a well-used tool to motivate various factions of both parties.
To single out the repubs and say they use fear is to speak only half of the truth.

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