A Problem of Shrinkage

**ICantSpellDawg** · 05-02-2009, 21:12

Originally Posted by Askthepizzaguy

I believe the same hyperbole can be used for the so-called right:

Most Republicans believe that people who are born with a same-sex preference are horrible sinners who will burn in hell and don't deserve equal rights, freedoms, and protections as straight people. They also don't seem to care about that one percent or so of people who are born hermaphroditic or otherwise sexually irregular, due to intelligent design of the human species. Of course, due to that design, doesn't that mean God welcomes his creations as he made them? BUT they believe that the government has a right to intrude into the bedrooms of consenting adults. If you don't believe that we should allow people to become obscenely rich while others are dying from curable disease, then you're a godless communist. They believe that anyone from Mexico, south America, China, or Arab countries are a threat to this country, regardless of being legal immigrants or second-generation. They think that it is OK for people to own any kind of assault weapon and that's the same as legitimate hunting or home defense firearms. They harp on and on about the rights of the people and the big bad government, then they remove people's rights both domestic and foreign and support the use of torture, in spite of their moral grandstanding on other issues like the life of the unborn, and paint the people who think if a woman has been raped by her father and would not like to have the child and that should be legal as being some child-murdering monsters, overlooking a woman's sovereign right to govern her own body from invaders. If a person is in your home uninvited, don't you have the "right" to shoot them on sight in many states? How is that different, in any way shape or form, from abortion? They also seem to think anyone who votes Democrat must be a pot smoking hippie who should be arrested/killed.

This kind of rhetoric gets us nowhere. Twisting the extremes of a party and then attributing that to the entire party is a pretty strong example of a straw man argument.

mine was 2 lines and meant to be humorous. Yours was long and boring! teehee

I pointed out that illogical dichotomy was a hallmark of the right BUT that it was not exclusive to the right.

**Askthepizzaguy** · 05-02-2009, 21:17

Originally Posted by TuffStuffMcGruff

mine was 2 lines and meant to be humorous. Yours was long and boring! teehee

I pointed out that illogical dichotomy was a hallmark of the right BUT that it was not exclusive to the right.

I am pointing out that accusing all democrats of being cold, heartless child murderers isn't actually that funny, accurate, or fair. And as for illogical dichotomy, I pointed out that illogical dichotomy was a hallmark of the left BUT that it was not exclusive to the left.

If you can do it, I can do it. It's a fair argument that way.

**Rhyfelwyr** · 05-02-2009, 22:19

And all the while, the Whigs are eating your babies.

The Republicans will pick themselves up. People always think parties are dead after a bad election defeat, then as soon as the opposition are in power for a while people forget about the past government and blame everything on the current one. People are just plain stupid, no government will ever be good enough.