Fallacies In Political Arguments

There are away multiple sides and to trick others into following you will only grant you short term success. Political leaders like Donald Trump promise certain things in their campaign that never follow through like his famous wall that will stop immigration. Yes he has tried to make a move but his promise did not keep up which can decline his support. When you trick someone they eventually will find out or maybe they will not but eventually they will have to disagree with you at some point. Artifice especially in politics will only get you so far as with

Presidential campaigns often thrive on fallacies. Trump is a perfect example of this, but is not the only one. Hillary Clinton, Martin O’Malley, Ben Carson, etc. Marco Rubio’s campaign, in particular, relies on a overly sentimental appeals as well as combination of fallacies resulting in a scare tactic.

For this week’s discussion about fallacies I chose to do mine on Slippery Slope fallacies. The reason why I chose this one is because while I was trying to think of which one to pick I had the tv on and a commercial for Direct TV came on and it was an old commercial they have used in the pass and I realized that this one would be a good one to pick. The commercial states why you shouldn’t have unreliable cable because if you do then you decide to do something else which causes a domino effect of unlucky, horrific events. For the commercial I picked the events that happen to the man was getting upset because of the service so he smacks his chair. Then his daughter sees it and does what he does at school and get kicked out, and when she gets

1. One of the main arguments of the debate was situated against inventive and the ways it presented itself in Hillary Clinton’s campaign. For example the proposition said that Clinton’s background was a good indicator of her future decisions and that inventive is based off of situated. The opposition rebuttal included the argument that situated is only a platform and the way she speaks now and the narrative that is created is more important is current predicament of the race. The also debated on party allegiance and the factors that play into that. The proposition argued that depending on your political party, you bring different situated ethos while the opposition debated that especially in this election, using examples of the split Republican

I enjoyed your post and can relate to the use of logical fallacies that parents tend to use. I myself will use logically fallacies to try and persuade my children to do what I ask them to do. My mother also would tell me that if I went to bed with wet hair that I would get sick. As a child, I never questioned what my mother said it had to be true because she said it. As you grow you learn that there is no correlation between wet hair and a cold or flu. A virus is the only way someone can contract a cold or flu. As you stated there can be a chance that a person is becoming sick from a virus and goes to bed with wet hair and wakes up feeling sick. But there is no scientific evidence supporting wet and a cold. Another fallacy that is present in

In the United States, the medical and pharmaceutical industries have the greatest technology and professional medical services in the world. As a result, the cost of medical care is higher than the other countries. With that said, due to ever increasing costs, healthcare reform has been an issue for the past two decades. In order to lower the cost of healthcare, President Obama introduced revolutionary changes. ObamaCare is the unofficial name for The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a health reform law signed on March 23, 2010 by President Barack Obama (DeMichele). According to ObamaCare, “the Affordable Care Act does lots of important things including: offering Americans a number of new benefits, rights, and protections in regards to their healthcare; setting up a Health Insurance Marketplace where Americans can purchase federally regulated and subsidized health insurance during open enrollment; requiring most people to have coverage beginning in 2014 in order to get an exemption, or pay a penalty” (DeMichele). Since the ObamaCare started, many conservative politicians and Obama haters tried to challenge the ObamaCare because they assume the law takes advantage of tax payers. On the other hand, some politicians think President Obama starts a new era of health care. On June 25, 2015, the Supreme Court rejected another challenge in the case of “King vs. Burwell”. The justices voted 6-3 that the IRS can continue

In 2004 the United States of America held a presidential election as it does every four years. Throughout the process, from primary to convention, from the debates to Election Day, both the candidates and the media relied on rhetoric to influence the thoughts of the electorate. Because of the close results of the 2000 election and the bitter court battle that followed, the rhetoric of the campaigns of both major candidates in 2004 was stronger and more focused than before. To show the uses of this rhetoric and its effects on the public through the media, several topics are discussed within. First, the language used by the candidates, followed by a discussion of the political conventions and a look at the

In a well-constructed argument and debate there will most of the time be a logical fallacy in efforts to make the author win their side and show their reasoning and why they are right. In multiple articles and journals there will naturally be these fallacies. In the source that the whole essay would be about there are also a few logical fallacies throughout; some of which include ad hominem, appeal to ignorance, either or, and appeal to pity. While these fallacies in most cases work towards the purpose of the article; which is that of communicating the dreadful separation of families, little boys and girls from their mothers and fathers, which are left to vouch for themselves after the deportation of their parents, there is room for these fallacies to grow and capture the full aspect of the purpose of the source.

Society is often built on lies which allows for the people within it to become accustomed to them. Rhetorical fallacies are now an integral part of persuasion in the world. They allow themselves to continue to affect the listener long after their delivery. In the event of these three speeches, the speakers used multiple fallacies to continually captivate the audience. While a valuable resource, if overused they may become the downfall of a message.

Democrat or republican? You have always just chosen what you believed, right? Well, the choice you make could actually be based on how your brain functions! In How Politics Breaks Our Brains, and How We Can Put Them Back Together, Brain Resnick uses studies and experiments, strong credible figures, and a weak personal life experience to argue his claim that people have a partisanship side of them that is built into the brain. This causes decisions to be made on a biased mind. These points give a shaky but over-all strong argument that the general audience can agree with.

Clintons 2004 DNC speech is probably considered one of the best political speeches because of his use of logical and ethical appeal. One example of logical appeal in the speech would be when he said "President Obama took office,the economy was in free fall. It had just shrunk 9 full percent of GDP.We were losing 750,000 jobs a month. Are we doing better than that today?. " He uses statistics in order the audience that President Obama was able to help improve the economy when it was in its worse place.

A fallacy, by definition, is an argument that uses poor reasoning. Before one uses a fallacy, it’s important to have full understanding or else you risk losing your whole ethos aspect of your argument. Heinrichs gives three important parts to detecting fallacies. “All you have to do is look for a bad proof, the wrong number of choices, or a disconnect between the proof and the conclusion.” (Heinrichs 146)

Not only do democrats have fallacies in their reasoning but republicans do too. At the start of the 21st century, George Bush had to make a case against the horrible terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Instead of presenting a sound argument, Bush used the fallacy of False Dilemma to persuade people to believe him. Bush said, “Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.” ("Logical Fallacies: George W. Bush.")

I am studying the rally speeches for the leaders of the Labour and Liberal Democrat party’s. Nick Clegg has been the leader of the Liberal Democrat party for 5 years now and Ed Milliband has been the leader of the Labour party for 2 years. Both of these leaders have become unpopular in the public’s eyes: Nick Clegg due to him lying about the raising of tuition fees as well as the negative view from his party as they feel he has disassociated himself from the party objectives in order to conform to a conservative coalition. Ed Milliband is unpopular due to his lack of solid policy projections and no real estimates of what he would do as prime minister, he has left the nation in confusion and doubting his ability.

"You don 't get the chance to make America great by getting rid of everything that made America great,” Stated by Hillary Clinton during her campaign rally in St. Louis, Missouri to attack candidate Donald Trump from his previous diverse rhetoric. Political Rhetoric has been very popular in today’s society. Politics use this as a platform to criticize other candidates about important points that are essential to the United States and its citizens. Not only does others believe that political rhetoric is out of control but it is a negative form of art. During election time, the media and the internet are critical for candidates because it gives them easy access to the younger audience. Although social media is enormous in today’s society, this is the best way for young voters to make their voices heard. Scott Keeter a research analyst and exit poll analyst for NBS News stated that “Young voters have given the Democratic Party a majority of their votes, and for all three cycles they have been the party’s most supportive age group” (Keeter, 1). According to U.S. Census Bureau over the course of time the rate of younger voters “Dropped from 50.9% percent in 1964 to 38.0 percent in 2012” (U.S. Census Bureau, 2).However, the media continue to evolve with modern society. I believe that rhetoric such as visual political rhetoric helps the youth to get more involved with the political arguments while being educated and entertained at the same time.