Uh uh uh, turning the car into oncoming traffic. . . is counterproductive!
The last thing the consumer index wants men and women to do is to figure out how to love one another: The $1. 5 trillion retail-sales industry depends on sexual estrangement between men and women, and is fueled by sexual dissatisfaction. Ads do not sell sex--that would be counterproductive, if it meant that heterosexual women and men turned to one another and were gratified. What they sell is sexual discontent.
Everything that the administration has done has been counterproductive.
I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive.