Longshadow wrote:
Figuring that I'd get a bunch of crap is not fear, it's a conclusion based on prior observances.
I never said I feared it.
Like I don't
fear having words put in my mouth, I anticipate it.
YES - "fear" used in that way is anticipatory, not being afraid of something, a totally different term. I, too, am most fearful of the direction the US is going - accelerating down the slippery slope!!!