THE METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING DECEPTION BY SUGGESTION. The way to trust any ideolog

THE METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING DECEPTION BY SUGGESTION.
The way to trust any ideological trope (libertarian, feminist, postmodern, socialist, communist et al) is to ensure it’s a complete sentence, in promissory form, unambiguous, absent the verb to-be, describing a full transactional change in state from start to finish.
This removes the capacity for suggestion and substitution – most sophistry evades those requirements and therefore allows you to substitute your priors and thus tentatively agree with a statement that is the inverse of the meaning of your opponent interlocutor and thus a deception by suggestion.
Examples:
Libertarian ‘Man Acts’ is my favorite example of deception by suggestion. It tells us nothing. Conversely Marxism’s labor theory of value is intuitive but absolutely positively false, by conflating your costs to you with the value of your efforts to others. The socialist trope of “workers own the means”. The feminist trope of “Believe Women”. The Postmodern trop “Truth Depends on Power”.
All of these are false and means of deception by suggestion. They appeal to intuition and provoke substitution.
They are the 20th century’s mass production of deception.

A checklist that catches the standard evasions

When someone offers a trope, require answers to these in order:
1. Define the mover: Who acts? Individual, firm, state agency, court, party cadre, “the community”?
2. Define the transaction: What gets transferred, prohibited, compelled, insured, or warranted?
3. Define the boundary: Against whom? Under what jurisdiction? Who counts as inside/outside?
4. Define the mechanism: Through what instrument (law, subsidy, prohibition, market rule, exclusion, credentialing, coercion)?
5. Define the metric: What measurement decides success/failure? (and who audits it)
6. Define the time: Over what horizon does the claim hold?
7. Define the loss function: Who bears error, abuse, and externalities?
8. Define the enforcement: What happens when actors defect? (restitution/punishment/prevention)
9. Define the counterfactual: Relative to what baseline and what alternative policy?
10. Define the exclusion set: What does the claim not imply (to prevent motte-and-bailey retreat)?
A trope that cannot survive this interrogation functions as persuasion without proposition: deception by suggestion.