The old adage says, “Don’t raise your voice, strengthen your argument.”
That’s good advice for thinking people. That’s good for people who are interested in an honest exchange of ideas for the purpose of understanding and reaching reasoned conclusions. That kind of thinking works in a classic debate format where it is presumed that each side can intelligently make, rebut, and support substantive arguments.
But that doesn’t work with liberals. Liberals don't think - they feel, and then they react to their feelings. In a true battle of wits, liberals can never win and they know it. That’s why liberals will always change the rules of debate.
And conservatives are completely clueless, if not stupid, about this. If you want to win arguments with liberals, you have to learn to play dirty. You have to learn their techniques. You have to know how to beat them at their own game. And, even then, you will be disadvantaged. Conservatives are controlled; liberals are rabid. Conservatives have guiding principles; liberals do not. Conservatives believe in fairness; liberals believe in winning. Conservatives actually believe that truth is absolute. Liberals believe that truth is fluid, relative, and can be fabricated or manipulated to achieve their objectives.
Here are the Liberal’s Rules of Engagement for Modern Debate.
1. Initiate the Debate. It has been said that he who frames the debate controls the outcome. Think about it. Where does most debate originate? Conservatives are usually too busy working and making positive contributions to society to be bothered trying to start some new crisis. Liberals, on the other hand, must always have some cause to rally around. Consequently, they invent crises. By the time conservatives find out there is a cultural problem or outrage, they are only left to react.
2. Forget About Substance. Make every proposition emotional. If you can work up a few tears people will think you are sensitive and sympathetic; they will think you really care even though you don’t. It doesn’t matter what it is, if you engage the emotions of masses of people, you are well on the road to victory. That's why God invented children. Children are objects for liberals to exploit for their emotional purposes. Whales, trees, and homeless people are useful too.
3. Control the language. Co-opt phrases and change the definitions of words. If the issue is queer marriage, change it to "marriage equality" so that people will think you are championing the cause of equality in opposition to those intolerant conservatives. And don't refer to them as anti-gay; call them homophobic and bigoted. As pertains to abortion, change the subject to women's health, women's rights, or pro-choice. After all, in the arena of ideas, no one wants to be thought of as being against a woman's personal freedom to make choices regarding something as intimate and personal as her own body and health.
That’s good advice for thinking people. That’s good for people who are interested in an honest exchange of ideas for the purpose of understanding and reaching reasoned conclusions. That kind of thinking works in a classic debate format where it is presumed that each side can intelligently make, rebut, and support substantive arguments.
But that doesn’t work with liberals. Liberals don't think - they feel, and then they react to their feelings. In a true battle of wits, liberals can never win and they know it. That’s why liberals will always change the rules of debate.
And conservatives are completely clueless, if not stupid, about this. If you want to win arguments with liberals, you have to learn to play dirty. You have to learn their techniques. You have to know how to beat them at their own game. And, even then, you will be disadvantaged. Conservatives are controlled; liberals are rabid. Conservatives have guiding principles; liberals do not. Conservatives believe in fairness; liberals believe in winning. Conservatives actually believe that truth is absolute. Liberals believe that truth is fluid, relative, and can be fabricated or manipulated to achieve their objectives.
Here are the Liberal’s Rules of Engagement for Modern Debate.
1. Initiate the Debate. It has been said that he who frames the debate controls the outcome. Think about it. Where does most debate originate? Conservatives are usually too busy working and making positive contributions to society to be bothered trying to start some new crisis. Liberals, on the other hand, must always have some cause to rally around. Consequently, they invent crises. By the time conservatives find out there is a cultural problem or outrage, they are only left to react.
2. Forget About Substance. Make every proposition emotional. If you can work up a few tears people will think you are sensitive and sympathetic; they will think you really care even though you don’t. It doesn’t matter what it is, if you engage the emotions of masses of people, you are well on the road to victory. That's why God invented children. Children are objects for liberals to exploit for their emotional purposes. Whales, trees, and homeless people are useful too.
3. Control the language. Co-opt phrases and change the definitions of words. If the issue is queer marriage, change it to "marriage equality" so that people will think you are championing the cause of equality in opposition to those intolerant conservatives. And don't refer to them as anti-gay; call them homophobic and bigoted. As pertains to abortion, change the subject to women's health, women's rights, or pro-choice. After all, in the arena of ideas, no one wants to be thought of as being against a woman's personal freedom to make choices regarding something as intimate and personal as her own body and health.
4. Never, NEVER Answer Questions. If you answer questions, your ignorance and stupidity will be exposed. Change the subject. This is called deflection. For example, if the subject is illegal immigration, accuse conservatives of racial discrimination. If at all possible, do not try to argue anything on substance. It was Ann Coulter who said, “Words are always bad for liberals. Words allow people to understand what liberals are saying.”
6. Never Concede; Just Agree To Disagree. This is the final trick up your sleeve when everything else fails. This is the smokescreen to use when you know you are losing the argument. This is the nuclear bomb of emotionalism and deflection. Even though your arguments are godless, stupid, emotional, convoluted, and lacking in substance, objectivity, truth, or validation, if you appeal to your opponent to “agree to disagree,” you will appear to be taking the high moral ground. Of course, you know you will never agree to disagree with those stupid conservatives. But by employing this phony pretense, some of the dummies listening will think you are trying to get along and compromise for the greater good. Even though you are a loser, you will appear to be more tolerant and reasonable than your hard-nosed, unbending, dogmatic, narrow-minded opponent.
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