Conservative trickery. Do others use it too?
Does anyone else see the trend?
- Compassionate conservative
- Clean coal
- Green growth
- Moral majority
- Free market
Take your biggest criticism and put the reverse in front. Without changing anything about yourself, you make yourself impervious to criticism. Only one thing: coal isn’t clean and growth isn’t green, no matter how much anyone says they are.
Liberals and other groups might use the technique. I haven’t noticed. If you know of examples, let me know. I’ll post so people know to guard against all trickery from all directions.
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