of '' political left'' is '' those who support egalitarian and liberal populist policies, as well as government control of many sectors of the state.'' According to Faye, the political left used just as much hate, fearmongering, and bullying as the political right was accused of utilizing...
People use the slippery slope fallacy as a rhetorical device to instill fear or other negative emotions in their audience. It is often used to argue against a specific decision by adopting its (hypothetical) extreme consequences as if they were a certainty. This is a form of fearmongering (or...
racism,conspiracy mongering, and scapegoating ofmarginalizedgroups, each of which served to consolidate the leader’s power, to distract public attention from the leader’s failures, or to conceal from the people the nature of the leader’s rule or the real causes of economic or social problems...