It does seem like a planned deception to dupe the gullible and obviously with their normal leftist labor audience the obvious deception does seem to have worked...
And that is where the labor/green/union-boss socialist alliance fails...
They seem to be used to dealing with the leftists who normally vote for them who seem willing to accept any drivel, lies, deception and stupidity no matter how obvious and no matter how dumb...
However when they try this on the broader, and much smarter, general population they find a push-back and a non-acceptance of the lies they normally have no trouble getting the usual socialist voting base to accept...
