September 27th and 28th of this year, I was thinking about some of the things presidential candidate Richard Nixon said back in the day, and it seemed to me that instead of addressing the issue, he was just complaining about the protesters.
Like - "Stop saying things! Only I can say things!"
It was kind of similar to the situation when Princess Diana campaigned against land mines in 1997, the last year of her life before the car wreck, and the Tories (conservatives) in the British Parliament said, "She's a loose cannon, and working for the Labour Party!"
They're just hoping listeners will say, "Oh, well, if she's on the side of the Labour Party then she must be evil, and land mines that maim and kill little kids in the countries where they are planted are -- what? -- very very good and must be protected??!! Hello?!
'Oh! Labour Party! Liberals! AAaaaauuuugggghhhh!'
They're just trying to get the public to hate somebody.
Meanwhile, I don't think the so-called "Labour Party" was saying anything at all about the lethal land mines (which they probably should have); only Diana was taking up that issue and highlighting it.
------------------------------------------------------------
You know, saying, "Someone who thinks differently from me is completely illegitimate because I say so" is not a strong argument for your position on the actual issue. ...
No comments:
Post a Comment