That's what makes the slippery slope fallacy so tricky. Because there are times when you are in fact slipping down the slope and breaking out the book to point out that it's a logical fallacy doesn't change the reality on the ground.
To pick another metaphor, give the GOP an inch and they'll absolutely go for taking the mile because that'…
That's what makes the slippery slope fallacy so tricky. Because there are times when you are in fact slipping down the slope and breaking out the book to point out that it's a logical fallacy doesn't change the reality on the ground.
To pick another metaphor, give the GOP an inch and they'll absolutely go for taking the mile because that's how they stay in power. They haven't built their modern political operation around the governance of a functioning country, they've built it around the notion that the country is being illegitimately governed and must be taken back, and therefore no quarter can be given to those who belong to the illegitimate institutions or their supporters.
That's what makes the slippery slope fallacy so tricky. Because there are times when you are in fact slipping down the slope and breaking out the book to point out that it's a logical fallacy doesn't change the reality on the ground.
To pick another metaphor, give the GOP an inch and they'll absolutely go for taking the mile because that's how they stay in power. They haven't built their modern political operation around the governance of a functioning country, they've built it around the notion that the country is being illegitimately governed and must be taken back, and therefore no quarter can be given to those who belong to the illegitimate institutions or their supporters.