I feel like I've said this 100 times recently, but it bears repeating (evidently.)
Fear is one of the powers-that-shouldn't-be's best tools to get the public to go along with just about anything.
An excerpt from a very good article on this:
Fear makes people stupid.
Fear is the method most often used by politicians to increase the power of government. And, as most social commentators recognize, an atmosphere of fear permeates modern America: fear of terrorism, fear of the police, fear of our neighbors and so on.
The propaganda of fear has been used quite effectively by those who want to gain control, and it is transforming the populace into fearful, compliant, pacified zombies content to march in lockstep with the government’s dictates.
The unavoidable truth is that the government—through its acts of power grabs, brutality, meanness, inhumanity, immorality, greed, corruption, debauchery and tyranny—has become almost indistinguishable from the evil it claims to be fighting.
www.rutherford.org
And a quote.....
But the establishment dupes will keep falling for all these psyops, because ya know... the corrupt powers in this world would never do anything bad to achieve their agendas!