When the Lord Mayor of London and his men went around tearing wreaths and mistletoe from peoples doors, they were roundly mocked (Their madnesse hath extended itself to the very vegetables, wrote John Taylor, a Royalist poet). Try to frame your saying no as an offer, rather than a rejection, suggests Reicher. The harvest was in and animals that wouldnt survive the winter had been butchered and preserved. Undeterred by the failure of his revolutionary forebears, Joseph Stalin tried a similar trick when he became leader of the (avowedly atheist) Soviet Union in 1928. Not a chance.
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