Posted on 01/26/2018 2:18:36 PM PST by davikkm
Good politics is about good arguments that lead to both (or all) sides reaching a compromise they can all live with. It is the process that allows us to not be led by demagogues and achieves the (if not grandest) result that benefits the most people. But what happens when arguments are made that are so flawed, and so false, that they should be rejected out of hand? And what happens when they are not?
Regardless one’s position on most areas of political discourse, the rational mind will likely find something of merit in the opposition argument. Yet more and more, the arguments being proffered are failing even basic tests of logic. And what is worse, is that both sides are accepting these as actual arguments without even trying to set the record straight.
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The Left has no heart..... ie. the point of the article. lol
Logical fallacies imply there was no intent to be wrong. What’s been happening has been evolving since the takedown of Nixon. A communist belligerence that has infiltrated it’s way into the body politic.
“Femenism” -
It takes away from a good argument when you misspell a key word.
moral equivalency, egalitarianism, redistributionism are all results of the anti-reality and anti-reason disintegrated mode of thought
Leftists cannot be persuaded with logic or rational arguments. Leftists understand two things:
1. Threats of violence.
2. Threats of death.
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