Malcolm McPhee: Climate of fear starting to make my temperature rise

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With election year pending, they are enough to remind us of H.L. Mencken's warnings to fellow Americans: "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence clamorous to be led to safety by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it."