#legislative bias

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Evil is bad sold as good, wrong sold as right, injustice sold as justice. Like the coat of a virus, a thin veil of right can disguise enormous wrong and confer an ability to infect others.

John Hartung

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Politician Speak

In my latest exchange with a politician I naively thought we could reason together. But there was no reasoning. It was only a frustrating attempt on my part to get him to answer a straight question. Yes, he got across his judgment of others and his hatred. But when I tried to find the basis for his position he simply took off on a different condemnation.

He used many logical fallacies, with “The Straw Man” being the most repeated. He would state what he said was my position—which was not—and then proceed to demolish that position as ridiculous. My questions only provoked more evasion and distortion.

How do reporters sift through all this prevarication? Do politicians operate like this because most of them started out as lawyers? It was all very disappointing.