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Not Sure Who to Fear Most

Karen Shiebler
3 min readJan 2, 2025

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Which group is the scariest?

Once again, the US has found itself the victim of terrorism. As this country welcomed the New Year of 2025, there were two violent attacks against civilian targets.

We all know about the horror that unfolded on Bourbon St in New Orleans, when a terrorist/madman drove a truck through a crowd and killed ten people. We’ve all seen the footage of the carnage, and we’ve all felt the fear.

We have also seen the video of the Tesla truck exploding in Las Vegas, right in front of one of Trump’s hotels.

It is awful. It is paralyzing.

I am so afraid of………

Um.

Not sure who to be afraid of, to be honest.

I have read some comments by the incoming President, who says that we should fear migrants and “open borders.”

I’ve read some comments on social media condemning Muslims, who some see as a purely evil group.

And I’ve seen a lot of posts about fearing all “right-wing nut jobs.” January 6th has been mentioned more than once.

But there are also an equal number of people expressing the opinion that the location of the second attack proves that all of this carnage was brought on by “left-wing communist terrorists.” Antifa has been…

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Karen Shiebler
Karen Shiebler

Written by Karen Shiebler

A Mother, a grandmother, a progressive voter. I write because it’s getting harder to march and because words are my weapon. I blog at momshieb.wordpress.com

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