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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (77061)	6/12/2006 6:14:11 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

>>I don't mind a pursuasive argument that is based on sound reason and principle but the moment I feel any manipulation or coersion is in play is the moment that I take offense. ... I am advocating a return to principle and conscience as a guide in political discourse. The confused priorities, incompetency, and corruption of our system can be understood best by identifying the degree of politicalization of social issues that have bushwhacked rational discourse.<< RCG - I agree completely with both of those points. The former goes a long way toward explaining my total distrust of George Bush and company. Rush Limbaugh has long maintained that conservatives use logic and reason to reach their positions, while liberals, he says, use emotion. Yet Bush's speeches tend to be couched in the most emotionally charged terms his propagandists can come up with, as in "We can't let the smoking gun be a mushroom cloud." That is not an appeal to reason. It's a call to fear. - Allen