Fear and threat as regressive tools of the trade

Speaking of how threat lowers one's ability ,or cognitive level, if you prefer, or takes one down to survival needs per Maslow, see Naomi Klein's study of this in The Shock Doctrine. The banksters know about this, as do US Republicans, hence they use constant fear and threat as tools to keep the masses in submission. Same with the Greek crisis, which was intentionally created by the banksters (see this for how it was done).

As a related aside, it is no coincidence that the Pope has asked Klein to work with this staff on solutions to the problems enumerated in the Encyclical. And she is the best person for this job, not Dawlabani or the 'developmentalists."