"the only thing we have to fear...."

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President Franklin Roosevelt's words from his first Inaugural Address ring just as true today as they did back in 1933 at the height of the Great Depression. There are those today who are trying to spread unnecessary fear by taking advantage of real concerns and blowing them all out of proportion.

Cult Leader Limbaugh, Half-term Governor Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and many others in the Republican and  Tea Parties are using the "fear factor" to try and make Americans believe that the U.S. has been "taken over" by socialists, Marxists and every other type of "ist" imaginable. These are the very same self-serving tactics that were used by the likes of Senator Joseph McCarthy (I still can't believe he was from Wisconsin!!) who saw Communists under every rock and President George W. Bush who (after 9/11) saw terrorists under those very same rocks!! Yes, these were real circumstances with a grain of truth to them, but were completely blown out of proportion for their own selfish purposes.

These methods will ONLY work if gullible people give in to those fears. Their brainwashing will only succeed if you allow it to.