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noun 
  1. The type of anger and distrust generated when politicians or representatives of the American legal hierarchy (i.e. District Attorneys) clash, or disagree, with the people they are paid to represent, causing a threat to the people.
    • When politicians prosecute personal vice but perpetuate war and police actions against other sovereign nations and their innocent populations, it creates a type of fear and loathing.
      1. The term was coined by :w:Hunter S. Thompson, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson in his 1972 novel, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and used widely afterwards.

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