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Originally Posted by Itse
So essentially you are advocating fact-free politics? Because that's exactly what this is.
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No. It isn't. Don't be dense. If you hold a particular political perspective, you're going to say that one party's message is a bunch of lies and slimy politics, while the other is an important statement that the public needs to hear. Inevitably, that's the argument that's being made, probably by both parties. This does not create a false equivalence, as was suggested.
The merits are beside the point because the point, as I noted, is whether it's okay to score political points by putting grieving parents on a stage. Even if you're right, should you use this sort of tactic? That is a reasonable question to be debated with good arguments on either side. I'm not convinced that you should or shouldn't.
Seriously, why do people have to be like this? If you were trying to have a conversation rather than win an argument on the internet, you'd be summarizing others' views in a way they'd be happy to adopt, rather than the opposite. It's so blindingly obvious what I'm saying, yet you deliberately choose to characterize it in the least charitable way possible. You've read my posts. What the hell are the odds that I want to do away with facts in politics? Does that seem at all likely to you, honestly?
FML that's frustrating.