These Are The People I’m Supposed To Be Afraid Of

Miller: We will prevail over the forces of wickedness and evil. They cannot imagine what they have awakened. They cannot conceive of the army that they have arisen in all of us. Because we stand for what is good, what is virtuous… pic.twitter.com/RDUjY9Y87N

— Acyn (@Acyn) September 21, 2025

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RFK JR: Particularly important during technological age when we are all hooked into social algorithms that are hacked into the reptilian cores of our brain and amplify our impulses for tribalism and division pic.twitter.com/tpv8iQGWJ5

— Acyn (@Acyn) September 21, 2025

Back in the 80's, when “preppers” were all the rage, because society was going to fall into anarchy any minute (not from zombies or social media; that was all 20 years away; and not from nuclear war; that was almost 20 years in the past), I was working at the bakery of a local sandwich shop (now, IIRC, this was the end of the ‘70’s. No matter.).  One night I went for beers after work with my boss, the bakery manager, and we fell into discussion about current events. Which meant the coming apocalypse and need to prepare for the hellscape-to-be.

Did I mention we were drinking beer?

We got loud, we got argumentative (well, I did), I was convinced he was full of shit and jumping at shadows. I was right, of course. Nothing he feared, thought he should prepare for, didn’t happen. He was a good guy, but there were people telling him to be afraid of the future that some of us now think of as “the good old days.”

And now those people who gin up fear are in the White House. That doesn’t make them scarier; well, not to me. That makes them just as ridiculous as my old boss, living in fear of something that was never coming. Stephen Miller is the one trying to convince himself that all the “good” people agree with him but, like the protagonist in “Four O’Clock,” if he had the power to reveal the evil people, he would be exposed as one of them.

And RFK? He just sounds like that dead brain worm has gone septic. Even my except-boss at the height of our inebriated shouting, made more sense. And he never went to Harvard. (RFK is also the most tribalist and divisive figure in public health today.)