i'm learning that the "dangling carrot" strategy is used by jews often - not only in politics, but in sports management too. There was a jewish owner of a sports team who spoke of the team and its fan base and mentioned how he always liked his team to finish second place in the division which was just enough to keep fans on edge of their seats but not enough wins to force him to have to pay out big contracts to the players or overspend in free agency. He mentioned dangling a carrot in front of the fan base. When confronted about it, he denied he had said it, despite being quoted in an insider book having said it in the presence of a sports writer. People believe he did indeed say it because it defined and explained the conditions and outcomes of his decades of jew ownership of a sports team that was never quite good enough and often second place in their division or a first or second round exit in the playoffs.