Seriously: What ever happened to critical thinking?

As just one example: How many detractors of Donald Trump think that he should be acquitted in the Senate trial? (Or, conversely: How many supporters of Donald Trump think that he should be convicted?)

This is just one example--many others leap to mind--but it begs the question: Do most people just throw out the window all critical thinking, and substitute an ends-justifies-the-means principle instead?

If this is, indeed, the case, then it greatly disheartens me...

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"In his second inaugural address, [Franklin D.] Roosevelt sought 'unimagined power' to enforce the 'proper subordination' of private power to public power. He got it…"—George Will, July 8, 2007

You misused “begs the question.”

As for the broader question, why do you assume that a Trump detractor supporting conviction is not engaged in critical thinking? I fully support conviction, not because I dislike Trump and think he’s a genuinely horrible person, but because the evidence clearly supports the conclusion that he spent two months lying about the election, to the point of working his simple-minded supporters into a violent frenzy, resulting in a deadly attack on Congress and the Capitol.

I think you are misusing "lying". To say President Trump was lying is to say he didn't believe what he was saying was true. I think Trump believes the election was stolen, the same as Clinton believes the 2016 election was stolen. Even if they are both wrong it doesn't mean they were lying.

It does seem that it's mainly people's blind rage and or near wholesale commitment to Trump that tends to lead the way on this issue.

But it's pretty self evident that claims an election was stolen are not criminal or an impeachable offense.
It's just not. Never has been.
Many congress people on both sides have done it over the years. Some have written books laying out a case for it.
Al Gore and W Bush both claimed victory and asked for recounts and court interventions.

There's no objective way anyone can claim that questioning an election is a "high crime" OR a "misdemeanor".

BTW, I didn't vote for Trump OR Biden.



but Critical thinking and being honest has never been a high priority for human beings.

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Hope is the dream of the waking man.
Aristotle

For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
Job 14:6-8

each side is led to believe the other side is out to get them or take over freedoms.
Trump incited insurrection ad the deaths of several people. His politics aside, his handling of the country aside.

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Please quote President Trump calling for insurrection or for anyone to be killed.

I know of (at least) TWO Democrats with references to killing Trump...



He plead guilty to corruption charges and resigned at the beginning of last year, but he wasn't punished whatsoever for his fundraising "antics"...

US lawmaker Chappelle-Nadal's Trump assassination post investigated

She didn't resign and was not forced to...

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"You get the respect that you give" - cnredd

if you watched the prosecution there was an excellent presentation of the timeline. If you can't stick with a subject that long, please just do not give an opinion or defend/condemn a politician-or anyone for that matter. Your vote I guess is determined by Eenie-meenie-miney-mo.
If you couldn't guess that he was directly responsible before the trial, you don't get enough civics and current events information to debate.

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Bernie will introduce an amendment tomorrow to up min wage over 5 years and tip minimum wage over 7.

sorry you don't to do what-aboutism in this case. while what she said was despicable, and I think she should have been censured, taken off committees and fired, that is a long way from causing actual harm by asking supporters to act violently; their country depends on it.
If someone in her name had killed or attempted to, then you might have something.

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Bernie will introduce an amendment tomorrow to up min wage over 5 years and tip minimum wage over 7.

No Donald Trump hater thinks he should be acquitted. They have been trying to get rid of him since he won the 2016 election.

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