TOMMY NATION POLITICS LIVESTREAM: "A Rotating Villain..."

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A “Circular Fallacy,” is a kind of presumptuous argument, where it only appears to be an argument. It’s just restating one’s assumptions in a way that looks like an argument. You can recognize a circular argument when the conclusion also appears as one of the premises in the argument…
One Circular Fantastical Fallacy, made popular by the manufacturing consent propaganda narrative of mass mainstream state-sanctioned media, is the “rotating villain…”
In American democracy, when the majority party has enough votes to pass populist legislation, party leaders designate a scapegoat who will refuse to vote with the party thereby killing the legislation. The opposition is otherwise inexplicable and typically comes from someone who is safe or not up for re-election. This allows for maximum diffusion of responsibility.

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