[Walrus]

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” ― H.L. Mencken

[Vigilanteman]

Mencken was a freaking genius. I think he died back in the 1950s but almost everything he wrote describes BO’s regime dead on.

[Paine in the Neck]

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” ― H.L. Mencken

This is what I refer to as 'buffalo jump governance' - an arrangement that allows a few crafty individuals to hold sway over a vast herd of much more powerful creatures by instilling panic into their unthinking brains. "Never let a crisis go to waste."