Political discourse has a long tradition of reasoning, of convincing the other political players in your system of your stance. But naturally all reasoning is motivated by emotions and games of power, and thus reason and unreason are inseparably entangled from the very beginning of politics itself, a condition which gets taken advantage of a lot.
In this thread we list up and discuss various means of strategies and tactics with which to take advantage in the aforementioned way. For starters, I will list up two common scare-tactics of contemporary politics.
Unemployment to a certain degree is actually good for the state and the economy. Companies are happy for every employee they don't need anymore. The state uses the statistics to suggest the constant prospect for employees to lose their jobs and share the ranks of those which the state tries to support less and less.
Thus they help the companies to establish poorer conditions for the employees who continously become more willing to accept these "inherent neccessities" of economy.
The term itself depends on current definitions which are provided by the state itself and can be expanded almost indefinitely, as long as the citizens are scared enough to believe that a broader definition of "terrorism" or "terrorist" will result in heightened general safety.
Doing this, the state acquires more justifications for more legitimized laws with which it can control its citizens better and more thoroughly.
This tactic works especially well, since terrorism already has happened which is a prerequisite to enact all kinds of preemptive measures againstt what has not yet happened, as can be seen that the terrorism subject has been used to give reason for war - the kind of politics which is the most difficult one to convince citizens of a democratic state of.