Ed Brayton explains succinctly just how foolish political extremists of all varieties truly are:
The whole point of such dichotomies is to avoid having to think. If you can just put that “liberal” or “conservative” label on someone, you can know whether to dismiss them or not. If you’re intellectually lazy, that is. If you’re capable of rational thinking, you know that labeling an argument does not defeat the argument and that you actually have to examine the logic of the argument and whether it explains the evidence or not.
Actually discussing the argument being made, rather than merely slapping a bogus label on it and moving on, is a talent too few folks exhibit in the political discourse of today.
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