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Originally Posted by Marulus
It is very important to get rid of different kinds of false opposites (Brussels vs. Washington, Left vs. Right, Americanism vs. "Antiamericanism" etc), which abound in the political discourse of the modern "West" and imprison people into "thought cages", sets of preconceived ideas, sometimes apparently antagonistic to each other, but in reality mutually complimentary and leading up - ultimately - to the same goal, only with different means and different rhetoric.
My contention is that false opposites are being produced, on purpose, by those who pull the strings in the background, in order to engineer obedient masses.
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Yes, it's the method used hundreds of times by the current governing class. The modern EU was built almost exclusively using this method of false opposites. Either a Franco-German Coal and Steel Community and the Treaty of Rome or another European war, and so on up to today. Sometimes these either/or choices were genuine, but mostly they were not.
A closely related trick is to bundle options together even though they are separate issues. Like a used book dealer who says "I can't sell you that book for €5 unless you buy these books too for €20", the Eurocrats constantly bundle unrelated initiatives together. If an EU state wants open borders for the sale of butter and beef, they are told they must also agree on a common immigration policy. A false opposite to be sure.