Have terrorists infiltrated the government?

The Oxford dictionary defines terrorism as the following.

The calculated use of violence or threat of violence to inculcate fear. Terrorism is intended to coerce or intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are generally political, religious, or ideological.

So terrorism is causing fear so that you can achieve a political end. Obviously bombing a crowded market or a bus or hijacking a plane would fall into this category. But I offer this.

If you tell someone that they should be afraid and that their risk of danger is increased unless you vote for them or their party, is that not the same thing? Are you not instilling fear to achieve a political end?

Isn't telling the population that terrorists are coming and we need to be afraid playing exactly into the hands of what terrorism is all about? The terrorists want us to be afraid. If we admit that we are, then they have won.

I am not saying that anyone in the government is planning to bomb a market or hijack an airplane. I am just saying that the tactics used by the President and some members of Congress to scare up votes sure seem to be playing on the same emotions that the terrorists are aiming for.

By doing so, they are admitting that the terrorists have won and using the same tactics as those they say they will protect you from.