Fear: What Keeps Republicans Going

There is no question that the main tool used by today's Republican Party is fear. Click on the links below for an in-depth look at this phenomenon: 

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Terrorism, Statistics And Fear

" - - - although the probability of an attack may be low, it may get higher. If you think of car accidents or the background rate of murder in the U.S. as a chronic disease, you can think of terrorism as the Ebola virus. Yes, the chances such a virus will infect any of us in the U.S. are small, but if it gets established, things could get very bad. When someone with Ebola manages to get to the U.S., we don’t dismiss it by saying, “Look, a lot more people die of cancer!” The alarms go off and stringent health measures are taken."

 https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2016/01/03/lawrence-krauss-on-terrorism-and-statistics/

Fear Is The Root Of All Superstition

Empathy and cooperation from evolution and socialization, combined with reason and science-based thinking, are the antidotes.

https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2016/01/03/we-got-scared-a-paean-to-science-and-rationality/