Culture of Fear

A culture that acts out of fear has no hope for improvement. Think of immigration fears in this country for example. Imagine if people gave up their fear and welcomed the idea of helping people become tax paying, law abiding citizens. Problem solved. That requires a major shift from fear to acceptance. Sometimes those in power would rather play to our fears than to our compassion. Hat

Lowest Common Denominator

Why is it as a country we have to pander to the lowest common denominator? Why not try the novel approach of helping each person reach as high as they want. That would probably disturb those at the top I suppose.