It's more blatant now, but hasn't it always been like that? One of the foundational rules of debating club is that you should be able to effectively argue the case for anything, objective truth be da… (View Post)

On topic, very few things are so binary as to be totally inexcusable. And one of the things that an effective politician does is make the excuses swallowable. We're seeing that a bit with the "i… (View Post)

Hasn't the groundwork for the Reform surge mostly been done by the Conservative party? (View Post)

In theory, the guardrail against telling untruths is that you are less likely to be believed next time. It's why 'charisma' is powerful and horribly dangerous in politics- it helps you make people be… (View Post)

He called it debating, anyway. A couple of analogies of why that's not entirely right. (This isn't mine, but I can't find the link right now to credit it.) He was a standup comic working a crowd. He … (View Post)