The End of Reason

Yeah, this is what the health care debate has degraded to in this country. Obama is now Hitler because this Healthcare plan is specifically designed to what? Kill Jews and old people?

I posted back in May about how it concerned me that we no longer seem to debate the issues by talking about the issues. Instead we demonize our opponents and the media just seems to lap it up. This pic is a perfect example of what I am talking about.

I was listening to episode 378 of "This American Life" and in it Trisha Sebastian mentions having a discussion on religion. The person she was talking with brought up Hitler as example of evil. Trisha said that if you bring up Hitler in an argument, immediately you lose.

I actually will go further and say that we all lose. Hitler brings a lot of emotional baggage (and justly so). Now - to bring all of that emotional baggage to an argument about health care reform? You lose. It tells me you have no other method for arguing your point than to stir up fear and emotion.