Time to take a look at the illogicalties prevalent on our political landscape:
1. The fact that one political party has done the same wrong thing in the past does not excuse and make right the doing of that wrong thing today by another party. Wrong is wrong.
2. The ends do not justify the means. Bad means...bad causes...always produce bad ends.
3. The people holding high political office are not in power, they are our employees. It is we the people who are constitutionally in power.
4. Those who negotiate favored deals that violate the rights of some of the people should be immediately criminally prosecuted. Holding political office is not a license to commit crimes.
5. Our country is not a democracy where the majority...the mob...rule. We are a constitutional republic with each individual having guaranteed rights of life and liberty. The fact that 82% of the American people favor a program that violates my freedom is not relevant to its legitimacy. Mob rule is wrong even if it makes a right choice.
6. Countering a person's character or motives does not counter his or her argument. What is morally and/or politically correct is objectively determined by reference to principles, not personal traits.
7. The fact that something is a long term tradition in our country does not make it right...like slavery, the second-class treatment of women, etc.
8. The fact a famous historical figure believed it right does not prove it right. The Founders were very right, but not 100% right.
9. Cause and effect cannot be substantiated simply by showing that after one thing happened, the other did. The fact the country prospered while a particular person was in office does not prove in the slightest that he or she caused the prosperity.
10. It cannot be a war and not a war at the same time. Congress alone has the power to declare war and "war" includes all forms of battle, skirmishes, frays, hostilities, conflicts, blockades, religious wars, wars of liberation, preventive wars, limited wars, air, sea or land wars, guerrilla wars, jungle wars. Aristotle: A is A.
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