Quite a lot of modern politics seems to be making sensible but mildly complex solutions seems stupid, wasteful or malicious. Once you recognize the pattern you see it everywhere.
Another big chunk is taking a number that applies at a national scale and referring to it out of context so that it seems unfeasibly large.
Quite a lot of modern politics seems to be making sensible but mildly complex solutions seems stupid, wasteful or malicious. Once you recognize the pattern you see it everywhere.
That's a great and very important point, I think. Oversimplification goes hand-in-hand with populism – essentially the promise of simple, elegant (and ultimately unrealistic) solutions to complex problems.
It was particularly evident in the UK during the recent EU referendum.
I've described Brexit as "anti-globalisation riots for the over-50s" before. "Smash the system" is a very tempting slogan, but then you realise that the "system" is also a life-support system.
Or compare it to the temptation to want to re-write a complex software system. It's very hard for the rewrite to retain all the features and it's nearly always very expensive.
Another big chunk is taking a number that applies at a national scale and referring to it out of context so that it seems unfeasibly large.