The two main political parties have a long history of disputes and disagreements over a plethora of complex issues. When it comes to engaging in political discussions, it is often hard for members of the left and members of the right to respectfully and knowledgeably talk about things, largely because of the crucial fundamental differences in the ideals and policies that each party focuses on.
The two-party system is most often blamed for the major discrepancies among members of our country, but the inability to have a respectful and informative argument or discussion based in legitimate reasoning, is the true root of many of the problems stemming from politics.
I think that in discussion, when people feel that their backs are against the wall, they tend to become defensive an distract from the things that the discussion is actually rooted. This is where fallacies come into play.
A fallacy, which is the use of invalid or faulty reasoning to form an argument, is a clear sign of…
