Original sentence: However, it should be noted that safety, or the lack of safety, does not has to be actual.Politician can try to make people perceive (a lack of) safety as a tactic to sway public opinion
Edited sentence: However, it should be noted that the world has not really changed all that much since those attacks occurred.Rather, Americans only perceive themselves to be a target.The use of fear as a motivating factor to sway public opinion was a tactic employed by Nazi Germany