Best of 2014: Are You Afraid of the Dark?

Justin Monticello | 1.2.2015 12:45 PM

Every good politician knows there's only one sure way to get people to support you: scare the hell out of them. From ISIS to weed-laced candy, there was much for you to fear during the 2014 midterm elections--according to the people running for office and the pundit class.

Watch as the kids from Nickelodeon's "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" learn the true meaning of terror: election-year rhetoric. Because the only thing scarier than shameless fearmongers is the Tale of the Ebola-Infected Mexican ISIS.

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