Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself

“Those who fear enemies are likely to impute traits to them that make the dangerous” Edelman. Pg 66. When looking over the video from “The Young Turks” about trump and other republican’s ideology on Muslims, this quote from Edelman think was written for specific instance just like the one they are discussing. In the video the two host discuss how Trump wants mandatory badges on Muslims. Many people are comparing this to Hitler with the Jews. Unfortunately it’s not just Trump that believes this or has the same ideology. They talk about how a women on social media who is a republican said that it’s not that we shouldn’t allow Syrian refugees in American, but if we do we need camps to keep them segregated and centralized. Now to look further into Edelman’s quote and put it into context a little better. What Edelman is trying to say in the quote is that when people are afraid of their “enemies” that that those same people are projecting their fears onto a group of people, only because they are different. Now by no means am I saying that ISIS doesn’t exist and that everything is rainbows and butterflies. However what I am saying is that now this is just my opinion. That the host of this video were completely right. Trump is sounding a bit fascist and more and more like Hitler with every speech he gives. What seems to be even more unfortunate is that his follower are so quick to agree with him without seeing the bigger picture. We cannot as a society lump all people from the Middle East as the “bad guys”. They are not all terrorist. To believe that they are is simply ignorant! We are creating a monster to be worse that it truly is.