As with practically all rhetorical devices, William Shakespeare liked using it (âShe being none of your flesh and blood, your flesh and blood has not offended the kingâ), but you can thank George Lucas for what is now probably the best-known example: âFear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate.
isolationism. the policy or doctrine directed toward the isolation of a country from the affairs of other nations by a deliberate abstention from political, military, and economic agreements. â isolationist, n.
The lies usually begin with the word âisolationism.â It was FDRâs smear term for the mass movement trying to prevent the U.S. from intervening in another horrific European war. Isolationism meant the desire to keep the troops out of harmâs way. But this position by no means precluded trading relations.