The ACLU, destroying moral and family values on a regular basis.

Or else I might stumble upon one of the most elementary logical fallacies and apply it to the above post.

I don’t mean to imply, of course, that popularity is unimportant. In a democracy, it is important, but in a republic like the United States, it isn’t all-important.

So what? The ACLU’s subject–civil liberties–is not determined by majority opinion. You can disagree with the ACLU’s interpretation of civil liberties, but what most Americans believe about the subject is irrelevant, because it concerns some of the core principles of our Constitution. If you did a poll and found that a majority of Americans want to see the First Amendment repealed, that wouldn’t be a valid reason to repeal it. It’s no accident that the highest authority on interpreting Constitutional law–the Supreme Court–is largely out of the hands of the people. Thank God for that.

Call it a present to yourself.

Don’t overthink this. My purpose was to present a set of facts and demonstrate the truth that the ACLU is a fringe (albeit a very wealthy) organization whose agenda bears no resemblance to the America it pretends to defend.

If you would have read the entire post, you would have noticed this:

“Judge the evidence for yourself.”

Is this all cleared up for you now Sparky?

There is no argument as far as I can see, just facts, and you have to take your critical thinking skills from there and draw a conclusion.

You know, a conclusion that’s not written for you at snopes or wikipedia.

That is irrelevant to what I just wrote. I did not defend the ACLU. All I did was point out that the post above offers no valid arguments. The post simply states that the ACLU is horrible, subversive, etc. and that their positions are unpopular. But it doesn’t bother to bring any arguments proving that those positions are wrong. Such arguments may exist, but none of them appear in the above post.

The bloggers here seem to start from the assumption that their views are absolute, gospel truth, to the extent that they don’t even have to back up those views with valid arguments. They think that simply asserting the views in a loud, rambunctious manner is the proper mode of argumentation.

Of course, you have every right to approach blogging in this way. The last thing I’m going to do is tell other people how to run their own blog. But I certainly can point out an absence of reasoned arguments when I see it. This doesn’t mean you’re wrong; it simply means that you haven’t proven that you’re right.

Now that we are an offical covert CIA site I want to thank you, Kylopod, for commenting and placing all of your personal information into our servers.

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The vast, VAST majority of people in this country don’t agree with the majority of the ACLU’s policies and actions because the vast, VAST majority of people in this country love this country.

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