Excellent right up. Speaks directly to my world view. Handing over responsibility for security is something I'll never understand. Looking around the world, I find it amazing that Americans are so willing to give up the gift of freedom they received by being born on a certain plot of land.
Look at Catalonia and tell me living as a "subject" is worth the creature comforts used to placate you.
It is the oldest play, raise the fear, offer security. It rarely fails. It use to be stories to get the fear up, but these days it is becoming more and more violent in reality.
Stories don't work anymore. With video and the internet, the fear needs to be real.