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Let me give a couple of examples.
I was listening to Larry Elder the other day, and a woman was saying that Arnold Schwarzennegger has to be prosecuted for any harassment of women he may have done. Larry agreed that any such misdeeds, if they took place, were wrong, that there are laws against them, that it was up to the women involved to bring any such actions to the attention of the police, and that the statute of limitations on those actions, if they took place, has expired. Larry went on to say that at the current time, Arnold has a lot on his mind—we have a state to save. California is billions in debt and in great danger.
The caller couldn’t care less about that point—she didn’t acknowledge it or even give any sign that she’d heard Larry say it.
If you ignore that massive fact, her position is far more reasonable. So her response was to refuse to hear of it.
Example #2. The liberal argument against the war in Iraq is essentially, “It’s bad to start wars. We’ve never done this before and Bush is wrong to do so.” That makes plenty of sense as long as you forget what we learned on 9-11, namely, that there are terrorists out there who are well-organized and trying to get their hands on a nuke to nuke us. From listening to most of those who argue against the war, you’d never know 9-11 ever happened.
You have to forget half of what you know to buy into most of the positions of the extreme left.
