Ok folks, I see I am not the only one here to have an instinctive distrust of marketing hype and speeches by corporate and political parties, aka 'spin'.
A common tactic used by those who seek power over others, who wish to impose say, 'dictate A' over people, which they know will cause anger and resentment among the masses, is to let slip that they are planning to impose 'dictate B', which is far more draconian than 'dictate A'. This causes great anger and resentment amongst aforementioned masses.
The powers that be, eventually , kindly explain to the masses that they are a listening, benevolent power, and have shelved any plans to impose 'dictate B', but will only bring in a 'dictate A', according to the wishes of the people.
The people feel they have won a victory, they feel that perhaps they were too eager to distrust this listening, benevolent power.
The power gets their 'dictate A' without a revolution.
Anyone else here getting the same vibes, or am I just an old cynic ?