I prefer pummel and ridicule over debate and argue when it comes to the walking brain dead...there is no point in trying to sway these write-off's...they cannot process reason or logic because they have zero independent critical thinking ability...they can barely wash and dress themselves and have to be told by their handlers what to do and what to think...why would I waste time on them beyond my own amusement?
The Author indicated we should engage to demonstrate to others what fools these morons were. You guys know I would engage sometimes on Powerline, and before that and more often at Town Hall ( back when that was a group open thread type forum) I even did it a while on Facebook (witht those same "freiends' that exculuded me form their blog mostly because I wrote something similar.. ) before giving up. The conservatives just nodded their heads quietly, and the "independents" posted another photo of a baby, a trip to the zoo or something because their goal was obviously to change the subject.
I found a couple of items notably absent from the article. The "Holier than Thou" (its a type of deflection I guess) where the Liberal just tells you that you are too stupid to argue with or waste time on. I will usually get that before I get "Racist" and it was how I measured "winning" -
Also, he doesn't really go into their tendency for projection. 75% of the time, what they accuse you of, they are thinking of doing, are doing or have done. They accuse you of certain behavior because that is what THEY would do in your shoes. They assume the Right is playing the same game as the left - the quest for power. We never have been - we seek truth and freedom. In any argument they are seeking self-affirmation that they are rhetorically clever, linguistically smart, or if all else fails , grammatically correct. ( You misspelled/mis-typed something, used a period instead of a question mark, etc) They feel this proves they are superior and therefore "right": They really don't ever care what the truth is.
He also alludes to the "actually can make an argument" type of liberal as someone worthy of debate and respect. But no, they are, in fact, the worst. They are just obtaining the self-affirmation a different way - and are displaying just as much bad-faith and they are just as disingenuous as the run of the mill self-affirmation seekers. Yes, you can hone your arguments and points with them, but what they are really doing is just playing for a stalemate. Prolonging the discussion till one of you tires out. These are, fundamentally the trolls. Every time someone contradicts them, they have an opportunity to feel smarter than you. That is all. It doesn't matter what you said, or even what they said. They get an ego boost from simply having someone else say they are full of crap because they know in their heart of hearts, that they are axiomatically "right" - morally, spiritually, and intellectually. They still won't respond to your argument directly, but they will instead ask leading, pertinent questions about your world view and take the occasional pot shot at one or another. They will not engage in a quid pro quo. They will not answer questions about their own world view. They will not respond to questions as to why they disagree with a given statement of yours. They may be decent "debators" but they are NOT interested, in any way, in finding the truth.
Finally the formal fallacy name for blaming the GOP for the same actions of the Dems ( part of "making things up" is called Tu Quoque. It means "You Too. "
