"Trick the miners"?
Oh you can't be serious. Do you believe
miners aren't capable of making a rational
decision whether they want to support
2MB blocks or not?
Miners do not really care much about it as long as the system is functioning. Trust me, I was in the business as well. Most of the people who were mining back in the GPU/ASIC days had very little knowledge about the exact workings of the protocol. I doubt that much has changed.
Like anything else, if they do not have knowledge of the protocol then they must decide which technical experts to listen to. There are qualified experts who want an immediate block size increase and others who don't. They can make up their own mind. No one is being tricked.