2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Peacelover Hillary voted for an insane war that killed hundreds of thousands, but Bernie [View all]Zorra
(27,670 posts)based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting an argument which was not advanced by that opponent."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
This is the most common tactic employed by the Third Way on Democratic Underground. They use these bullshit arguments to derail threads that go against corporate interests. They have to use these types of arguments because they have little or nothing to support legitimate arguments with.
You will see several strawman posts in this thread. Please call strawman posts out whenever you see them, so that everyone else will immediately recognize them as attempts at deflection and deceit, and ignore them.
Thank you. Now we return to our featured OP,
Peacelover Hillary voted for an insane war that killed hundreds of thousands...