Fear-mongering

Just for the record, both sides engage in fear-mongering.  Bush did.  Obama does, too.

Fear-mongering is a useful tool for the current administration to pull together coalitions.  George Washington warned us that the two-party system would do this to us.  So stop acting surprised and stop hurling this accusation.

Accusing the current administration of fear-mongering just makes the accusers look dumb (you don't understand that this is how the two-party system works) or partisan (you ignore the fact that your side does it, too.)