How Americans are Brainwashed to Fear the Wrong Things.

http://www.alternet.org/investigations/how-americans-are-brainwashed-fear-exactly-wrong-things?akid=12910.294211.9vDZct&rd=1&src=newsletter1033541&t=2

Hyped threats and propaganda promote fears, some real and most fake.
What is a bigger threat to most Americans: big government or big business?
In December 2013, the Gallup poll found that nearly three out of four people feared “big government” more than “big business” or “big labor.” After President Obama took office in 2009, 55 percent feared Big Brother. By late 2013, the last time Gallup asked, the government-fearing figure was 72 percent, the highest in 50 years.
Only 21 percent of Americans said that big business was a bigger threat.

“For conservatives, democracy is about the liberty to do what you want to do to anybody and meet no public responsibility,” he said. “With progressives, people care about each other and work through the government to provide public resources so that private life can function and private business can function… The whole idea of public resources for well being and freedom isn’t there for conservatives.”