As Frank Herbert put it in Dune, fear is the mind killer. Only a small subset of humanity will have clarity of mind while the fear response is in action. If we

As Frank Herbert put it in Dune, fear is the mind killer. Only a small subset of humanity will have clarity of mind while the fear response is in action. If we look at history, more wars have been fought over some demagogue preying on the fear response of the public than anything else.