Bob Stannard: Fear or love – what’s it going to be?

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Bob Stannard, an author, musician and former lobbyist. This piece first appeared in the Bennington Banner.
We live in strange times; but we’ve lived in strange times before. Human behavior has been driven by either fear or love forever. Of those two emotions, fear is the one that wins out more often than not.
Fear allows those who thirst for power to hold sway over large groups of humans. The Inquisitions, promoted by the Catholic Church as a way