3(b) – In demonizing alternatives to the ideal, incorporate within said ideal descriptions of the methods you use to enforce it (projection) such that any accusations you make about forms of ‘evil’ are less apt to be applied to yourself because you ‘claimed it first’ as the nature of evil.

Example of 3(b) from religion: Tell people the devil is a being who comes in a pleasing form but is ugly at heart, that he and his lesser demon followers mislead people by telling elaborate, compelling and pleasing lies and through grandiose deceptions and by offering magnificent trades for nothing other than your entire essence (mind, body and soul) for the rest of time. That he grants your wishes if you ask him for things in exchange for this essence but often will grant something different than what you asked if he feels he can get it past you. And once he has your dedication, he will turn you into a mindless, zombie-like follower and slave to him and his will.
Now, if you still happen to hold ‘religious’ ideas, stop to consider for just the briefest of moments that your religion is the same as how you view the 5000+ other active religions on the planet today that you do not follow – wrong! If it’s wrong then what the church is telling is not the truth – they are compelling lies. And what do they expect? Your blind faith, worship and devotion to the church and to their ideal of God for the rest of time!!! Sound familiar?

Truth be told, people making low incomes pay little or no tax in this country. Part of the reason I did it was because I could write those big ole words EXEMPT on the 1040EZ form every year and mail it in due to the low amount of my recorded income. (note the word ‘recorded’ – I was making $10 an hour in an official capacity. My choice of profession and manner of ‘shrugging’ turned out to not be the only similarity I had to Galt – you may recall he still traded with those joining him in the strike and living in the Gulch, and he still maintained a considerable lab in his modest apartment)

But, people like their things. People like their conveniences. The government banks on this too. You want your iPad and your Samsung phone and your SUV and your condo in the burbs too much to risk losing them. You can’t imagine yourself without that highspeed internet or the 600 HD television channels. You can’t imagine a day going by without a Starbucks vente latte or a package of godiva cordials.

Thus is my point. It will continue unabated as long as people treasure convenience more than they do their own freedom.

Finally, someone said that they do not see ‘jail time’ as a reasonable future. And you think you aren’t imprisoned now? The average [direct] tax burden of the wage earners in this country is now over 35% just to the federal government – that is not including state and local taxes, not including hidden taxes rolled into the price of goods and services. That’s not including the effects of mass-scale franking of currency and the effect it has on the value of your existing dollars just to cover increasing government spending and interest on the growing national debt.
Even using JUST that 35% that means that over 1/3rd of your adult, productive life – your time, your efforts, your blood, your sweat, your tears – is no longer your own.
Your freedom is a mask pulled over your eyes to make you unaware how much you are really a conditional slave of the state. Keep kidding yourself. No jailtime? Your prison __is__ your desire not to be inconvenienced!

“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.” — Thomas Paine

“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.”
and
“Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it”
– Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune (book 6)

‘It’s said that “power corrupts,” but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insatiable, implacable.’
– David Brin, The Postman