This time is different, this time we'll get it right, says Pol Pot.
Do you think the Bolsheviks started out to kill millions of people? Frankly, they were in fact so similar to Zeitgeist, it is scary.
Pol Pot certainly did. Do you think Dow Chemical started out to kill the people of Bhopal?
Rhetoric is agitprop, but a large demographic is immune to that these days. Using facts, logic, and rigorous statistical methods gets more cred these days.