Posted on 11/22/2017 10:52:41 AM PST by Kaslin
They play the race card. If that doesn't stick, they toss out the gender card, as they have with Judge Moore. If the opponent survives these attacks, then it's the class card, as it was with Mitt Romney. If none of this works, it's the LGBT card. Then there's the "E" card – just "too extreme," as with Barry Goldwater and Judge Bork. When all of these fail, as they did against candidate Donald Trump – and all of them were played – the left freaks out and starts throwing things.
All of these attacks are versions of the same logical fallacy: the ad hominem argument. Ad hominem attacks are called "fallacies" because they have nothing to do with logic per se. They intentionally deflect the discussion from ideas to personal issues instead of policy ideas or questions about one's ability to perform the job. The fact that Mitt Romney's wife owned two Cadillacs, something clueless Romney cited as evidence of her unpretentiousness (Cadillac, not Mercedes – get it?), was held up as damning evidence that the candidate was out of touch. In one poll, two thirds of respondents stated their opinion that Romney "doesn't care about people like me." It was over after that, all without discussion of a single idea.
By its very nature, ad hominem is an "impure" form of debate. It shifts the argument to the level of schoolyard accusations: "I don't like you because you're not nice." "No, you're the one who's not nice." That pretty much sums up the Democratic Party's line, especially since the 2000 election. (Don't vote for Bush – he's a "cowboy," and his supporters are "bushies." Does that make sense?)
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It is particularly effective if you control nearly all the media. Fortunately, today, there are alternatives.
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The very people who prefer reason over faith end up not being able to reason.
Reason” is what they call Emotion. They prefer emotion over reason and faith.
Leftist logic: I believe it so much, I can’t imagine the alternative. Since I’m smart and can’t imagine the alternative, what I believe must be the objective truth. Therefore, anyone that disagrees with me is a liar or a fool, and a naziracistomniphobe. It follows logically.
“If the opponent survives these attacks, then it’s the class card,...”
Trump saw that one coming, and he got in front of it amazingly well. By flying his private jet to rallies, showing off his real-estate empire, boasting about his net worth, etc. etc.; he completely buried that card. He did it so well that opponents were left accusing him of *inflating* his net worth. IOW, he did the opposite of what Romney did & came out on top.
Alabama Senate hopeful Doug Jones defended man with ties to KKK, Holocaust deniers
Lying to gullible voters to win an election is actually highly logical.
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