Cult(ure) of fear among leftists

I happened to stumble across some youtube video where a leftist commented on some kind of video of a discussion of some journalist and a bunch of Republican Trump voters.

Putting aside all the typical deceptive and defamatory talking points made by the author of the video himself, it was the comment section of the video that caught my attention.

Here are some of the comments in that comment section. See if you can detect a pattern, an underlying theme (click the image for a full-sized version):

"scary", "what scares me", "absolutely terrifying", "horrifying", "completely horrified", "truly frightening", "truly scared", "scares the Hell out of me", "they are scary"...

And those are just a small sample.

While it's not an uncommon expression to say how "scary" it is that eg. some people are utterly stupid or uninformed, I believe that in this case it's more than just merely a colloquialism. I have this strong suspicion by the fact of the sheer amount of people writing comments expressing fear, many of them in actual seriousness rather than figuratively (like that last comment in the picture).

As you might surmise, I have watched a ton of political videos (way too many for my own sanity, really) and skimmed through uncountably many comments in the comment sections of those videos, and I don't remember ever seeing this amount of expressions of fear (figurative or literal) in the comment section of any anti-leftist video. There might have been some once in a blue moon, but really, really rarely.

In the comment section of this anti-Trump video, however, comments expressing fear are plentiful.

Which is why I think that it's not just being used as a colloquialism. There's more behind it. Something that naturally makes all these people use expressions of fear in their comments.

Far-leftism is, after all, a cult of fear. It is often described as a cult of victimhood, but those two things go tightly hand-in-hand. The most effective way to make people feel victims is to make them afraid, to make them scared of everything and everybody.

These people have been indoctrinated into being scared of half the population. While some of those comments might be using the expression merely colloquially and figuratively, I truly believe that in many (perhaps even most) cases the person is expressing actual fear, literally and not just figuratively. The sheer amount of such comments is compelling evidence of this. Normal people don't use such expressions that often.