This is communication 101. If you start internalizing that form of storytelling, you'll see it everywhere - literally all of our public discourse has this stru

This is communication 101. If you start internalizing that form of storytelling, you'll see it everywhere - literally all of our public discourse has this structure, from the Build Back Better plan to "Immigrants are taking our jobs" to "Flatten the curve" to the right-wing school-board stuff to fluff pieces on local restaurants to top-ranked HN comments. It's so prevalent because it works - it taps into fundamental cognitive & emotional biases that humans hold, so the ideas that spread are the ones expressed in that form. If you want to be rational about this, judge the plan (and this one too) on its own merits rather than on the fact you're being manipulated. You're being manipulated - you are always being manipulated, every time someone communicates with you, and you can't escape that. It's good to understand how, but then your job is to tease out the rhetoric and understand the underlying proposal enough to judge it on its own merits.