Emeritus Prof Christopher May on Nostr: Yes, I think there's a growing recognition that this 'long game' of conflation is a ...

Yes, I think there's a growing recognition that this 'long game' of conflation is a major contributor to the manner in which the two are now seen (politically) as interchangeable even when there are formal declarations that they are not;

its another case of patient engineered inculcation (which one might compare to the similar sorts of 'campaigns' in fiscal & public economics - see for instance the long-running critique developed by Simon Wren Lewis of 'media macro').