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PRINCIPLES OF CIVIL DEBATE

April 27, 2005

It's official -- you can't disagree with Stuart Levine without being evil or stupid:

I have developed a simple rule of thumb in analysing conservative policy pronouncements, the Knaves and Fools Rule. The rule is simple: Conservative policy pronouncements are made by knaves and then the pronouncements are believed and repeated by fools.

That makes it a problem when you lose elections. To win the next time, you have to convince people to stop being evil, or you must convince the stupid to be stupid your way. That can be hard to do without letting them know they are stupid. And those fools don't take that well.

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