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To: SeekAndFind
Using reason and logic leaves no room for fallacy or emotionality, strengthening the defender’s position and weakening the opposition’s.

One of the reasons my first wife became my first wife (her choice) was that she became a proto-woke academic and I remained an evidence-and-reason academic. Whenever we had intellectual discussions, my evidence and reason generally squashed her myths and feelings, at which point she would complain that I was attacking her like a steamroller and never giving value to her views. It's why attempting to be reasonable to anyone with any level of wokeness is a fool's errand. However...

"It was the ‘abortion issue,’ poorly handled by many Republicans, especially those that firmly insisted on No Exceptions, even in the case of Rape, Incest, or Life of the Mother…."

Sorry, Donald, this is a hill to die on, or as E-Knock puts it, "Don't you hold me back, I would die for this." If you want to lose me and a few million of your followers, just keep doing what you're doing.

9 posted on 01/03/2023 8:56:04 AM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: chajin

“If you want to lose me and a few million of your followers, just keep doing what you’re doing.”

He’s doing his best to turn off his base:

““We are fighting for the gay community, and we are fighting and fighting hard,” Trump said.”

https://thewashingtonstandard.com/two-wings-of-the-same-bird-after-biden-signs-illegal-marriage-act-donald-trump-hosts-gala-for-homosexual-republicans-at-mar-a-lago/


26 posted on 01/03/2023 10:02:00 AM PST by suthener ( )
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