Party politics in modern democratic society means pandering to a wide variety of different groups and sympathizing with their often quite base motives, such as revenge, power, booty, and spoils, to maintain the necessary level of support.

Party politics in modern democratic society means pandering to a wide variety of different groups and sympathizing with their often quite base motives, such as revenge, power, booty, and spoils, to maintain the necessary level of support.

The specific media may change, but the principles of human nature have remained fairly constant over the millenia.

Small town people assume you are a friend if you simply remember their names.

When you give false information you tend to restrict the freedom of choice to others.

Aristotle writes that persuasion is based on three things: the ethos, or personal character of the speaker; the pathos, or getting the audience into the right kind of emotional receptivity; and the logos, or the argument itself, carried out by abbreviated syllogisms, or something like deductive syllogisms, and by the use of example.

Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning.