Slippery slope my friends. Slippery slope. Politicians are the bomb at slippery slopes. One second they make a valid point and then out of nowhere they convince you of something is completely unrelated. Gosh I am doing a horrible job at explaining it soooo.... I am going to let the book do it. This is what it says, "It occurs when you argue that one event will inevitably lead through a series of related events resulting in disaster."
Can we see how this relates to the politics thing? I feel like election candidates are guilty of this. Like that one time that the governor of somewhere said she was "not a witch" and then bing bam boom..... she "was a witch." What is that? Slippery slope. Maybe? Or like when the President makes a not so great decision and then all of a sudden the opposite party thinks "Oh no! The country is going to crumble because he made that decision." Ummm... I am sorry, false.
I would like to say that I have never been fooled by this, but in fact, I have. And I am guilty of doing it myself. Sadly... Anyways this is the fallacy I have chosen so yeah. Good one.
I agree, i feel as if in politics fallacies are used the most which is kind of sad. We should be able to trust the people we are voting for, not have to figure out if we are being deceived.
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