Today’s political craft is all about doing things wrong. Everyone knows how to make a society work with law, order, reasonable taxes, etc. But, no, you should do everything the other way around. It becomes like a pretend game, which no one really believes in but is forced to play along with. Here are some examples:
- Lighter sentences for serious criminals – hunt down old ladies who write nasty things on Twitter.
- Create lots of different taxes and keep raising them – let the richest get away.
- Build huge concrete boxes houses on historic land – introduce cumbersome building permits for ordinary people.
- Let teenagers decide if they want gender reassignment surgery – don’t allow them buy cigarettes or beer.
- Let in hundreds of thousands of refugees without identification documents – double-check citizens’ passports, scan and frisk them.
- Invest billions of dollars to tap people’s emails, phones to prevent crime – ignore the actual unsolved crimes that is constantly increasing.
- Be soft on armed gang criminals – tighten rules for law-abiding gun owners, hunters etc.
- Accuse Hungary of violating freedom of expression – support media that all report identically.
- Paint Russia as the enemy – start new wars with other countries (approximately) every five years.
- Talk about democracy, freedom of expression and values – don’t allow critical questions and lie all the time.
- Give state subsidies big corporations that want to establish themselves in depopulated communities – demand 1000 rules to start a hot dog stand.
- Get upset about microaggressions and people being misgendered – downplay assassination attempts, it was just something that caught his ear…
There are more, of course, but this is just a sample. The psychology behind such behaviour should be interesting to analyse.
