Bridge Collapse

[DanaC]

To the contrary: I most certainly can tell what skills he lacks, and I have the entirety of his body of work here on this Cellar to back my view. Allow me to confine myself to just the most prominent example: in all his volubility on various subjects, has he persuaded anyone of his rightness? Are his posts received favorably or with snorts? Does he not resort too often and too easily to "You lie!"? He lacks that faculty to persuade. The only reasonable assumption I can make is that he talks as he writes, behaves as he writes -- that his soul is revealed in his works, especially on those fora concerned with politics, with religion, and with philosophy. These are the places that show your wants, your ideals, your worldview. No question but that they show mine.

Unlike yourself of course who routinely persuades others to your view and whose posts are never derided.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by DanaC

Unlike yourself of course who routinely persuades others to your view and whose posts are never derided.

There are those who try deriding them -- claiming that reasons or motivations they cannot articulate are superior to what I explicitly lay out, for reasons I can articulate. These people don't come off so very well. About the best they can do as they finally throw in the towel is squeak, "You're not worth it!" which is the left-winger's code for "I got nothing left, none of my ideas are good enough to persuade." It's the American Left's want of wisdom that puts them in their sorry shape -- the Right tends to study wisdom and adopt it.

Sometimes these collapses are spectacular, such as Spexxvet's recent meltdown over guns. He didn't merely lose the argument to the combined efforts of xoxoBruce and myself, he jettisoned it over the side when his pacifism cracked and crumbled; the whole of the Cellar that was watching stared him down. I understand that gun rights are human rights -- not everyone does, not yet -- and that gun rights, made real, support in many ways the natural human right not to be wrongly slain by other humans, as in crime (retail, as it were) and genocide (wholesale). Literally, being able and equipped to fight preserves your right not to suffer death, in all imaginable circumstances.

This Republic is all about the widest possible distribution of political power in its truest sense, both in the Law's say-so and in the physical sense, with power delegated for use by the people's representatives from judges through Congress to the President being limited in time and in scope. This approach serves us well, though any corrections that from time to time become necessary tend to be noisy, and very public.