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To: r9etb
we allow perversity to be normalized; and we surrender our institutions to those who are driven by something other than a desire to serve the greater good.

That is all predicated on the ignorance the Left sows within our culture. Face to face, the Right's arguments always triumph, because they are based on reason rather than emotion. However, the power of emotions -- fear, self-righteousness, vanity -- exceeds the calm of reason. So what the Left lacks in clarity, it makes up in volume.

It's very easy to appeal to emotion; it's much harder to appeal to reason. That's why the Left finds its flimsy tenets so readily accepted, even though they seldom survive the first collision with reality.

Reality, then, is our friend. But the presentation of that reality is colored by the distortions of the Left.

88 posted on 12/20/2005 11:54:28 AM PST by IronJack
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To: IronJack
That is all predicated on the ignorance the Left sows within our culture. Face to face, the Right's arguments always triumph, because they are based on reason rather than emotion. However, the power of emotions -- fear, self-righteousness, vanity -- exceeds the calm of reason. So what the Left lacks in clarity, it makes up in volume.

We agree on the basic effects, even if we disagree on the ultimate causes behind those effects -- and because it's a feedback loop, there's room for both of us to be right.

89 posted on 12/20/2005 11:56:53 AM PST by r9etb
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