The National Psychosis: We are being kept in a state of fear by our government...

Psychosis: a serious mental disorder (as schizophrenia)
characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with
hallucinations or delusions


http://bionicmosquito.blogspot.com/2012/06/national-psychosis-conquered-by-miobi.html?showComment=1369999982914



The government has done a tremendous job of frightening
Americans – around every corner is a potential monster.




Hitler is going to take over the world. The communists are coming, the communists are
coming. We must stop them in Viet Nam,
or the dominoes will fall all the way to California. The Soviets will destroy us all.




Watch out, the Arabs are coming. Every Arab is a potential threat to our
freedom. The Muslims want to force us to
live under Sharia law. Ragheads in caves
half-way around the world want to bomb us because we are free. Every passenger at the airport is a potential
risk. Check the grandmothers and the
infants. Virtual strip searches must be
conducted for our own safety.




It’s the Chinese. They
want to extend their sphere of influence all the way to the Western Pacific –
Taiwan, if you can imagine this. The nerve of those Chinese.




We need a missile defense shield against Iran, who one day,
maybe, might have one bomb. Saddam
Hussein is the next Hitler. Gadhafi is
the next Hitler. Ahmadinejad is the next
Hitler. Bashar al-Assad is the
next Hitler.




If we don’t fight them over there we will have to fight them
here. The only way to win this war is to
kill all the terrorists.

It's not just the government, it's Fox news. It does play into the hands of the government to have a fearful populace though. Our last president used the tactic to broaden his power and wrecked our economy because Americans weren't watching.
By the way, studies have shown that most liberals are less fearful of the future than conservatives are. You can take that for whatever it's worth.