The Stout Republican

More specifically known as Reduction ad Hitlerium, coined by Leo Strauss. Don’t mean to get all college course preachy, but that’s what it’s there for right…my degree makes me right, like a microphone makes a talk show host right. I suppose the internet equivalant is Godwin’s Law, which we see often in the internet blog culture. Anywho, the source:

The Association Fallacy is a common hide-a-way of those who cannot argue…basically, “the qualities of one are inherently qualities of another, merely by association.” This is something they teach you in Marketing if you want to capture the masses (in between the classes on golfing…). Based on the assumption that people can’t think for themselves, you simplify it for them. Put a T-Shirt on the back of a Hollywood star, it sells merely by association. Put Arnold next to Bush, you can grab the attention of the liberals, pull that Bush hatred up, and make that association, and get votes. AVOID REAL ISSUES AT ALL COSTS.

Governors don’t put troops in Iraq, they don’t make federal policy that affects the price of oil, and they don’t declare war.

Now let me throw Godwin’s Law out there:

As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.

Why is this relevant? It’s how conversation digresses to the lowest common element. You argue with a liberal, that’s what happens. It just devolves to basest most unfounded points, and it going to be fun to see how the left handles this election in California, especially when there’s a governor who has been making a point about working with both sides (much to my currently whiskey sipping chagrin) and bringing people together…but still not enough. If you can’t attack and win on the point, reference Hitler…or Bush, who the left sees as a moral equal.

So what happens here? Well, I shrug it off and laugh with my cronies about the futility of arguing points with Democrats, and leave it to the hands of fate…or the earth goddess…I don’t want to leave anyone out of this.

I need a Krishna to punch…this is frustrating.

California, President Bush