The undeserving maintain power by promoting hysteria.

Frank Herbert

Across the nation, the practice of inflaming passion to facilitate manipulation has ignited a blaze of willful ignorance and hatred.  The will to power has overwhelmed honesty; a conflagration of emotion has charred reason, and left logic in ashes.  Day by day, the blaze of outrage consumes critical thought and scorches consideration and compassion.   Unchecked, this uncontrolled inferno of senselessness threatens not only those deemed enemies, but the wielder of such weapons menaces their own integrity as well.

Where responsibility is abrogated in pursuit of hegemony, those in authority no longer deserve to rule.  To promote hysteria in the pursuit of power is to render oneself unfit to command; no matter what grandiose goals are sought.  Abandoning rationality torches the fabric of justice; and weaves a tangled web of corruption.