Truth of the Divine (Noumena, #2)

by Lindsay Ellis

History shows us that liberal democracies and democratic norms are easily exploited when populists capitalize on mass fear for political gain, when they position a fearful majority into an “us” opposed to a nebulous, terrible “them.”

These fearmongers provoke the anxieties of an already insecure populace not because they have any strategy regarding our survival as a civilization, but because they desire power. They don’t care about the cost, perhaps because they don’t believe there truly is one.