An observation.....

[poltr1]

Liberals tend to use emotion to sway people to their side. Conservatives tend to use logic to sway people to their side.

Agree or disagree?

Comments

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Disagree. Both sides make pleas to emotional considerations. They're just appealing to different emotions.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*points upwards* What he said.

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

Thirded. The Bushies certainly have made lots of appeals to nebulous fears of terrorism in order to get us to accept large holes in the Constitution and in our civil liberties, and to accept a war that we should have known (and many of us did know) would be expensive, protracted, and unwinnable.

[owlsforodin.livejournal.com]

Fourthed.

The Republicans seemed to be hogtied to the War on Terror the way that medieval Popes were constantly preaching crusades.

The Religious Right has always played on bogus fears about "traditional American values"

It's so unimaginative and manipulative that it's sickening.

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's been going on since Cato ended his every oration to the Roman Senate with "Carthago delenda est."

I've never been able to follow the logic behind the argument that allowing same-sex marriage somehow cheapens or weakens heterosexual marriage. If a man is married to his wife, and his next-door-neighbor marries his male partner, how does the existence of the second marriage cheapen the first? How does it diminish the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of the first marriage?