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Related: About this forumRalph Reed's logic
"86% of the American people live in states today that define marriage as between a man and a woman. This is the majority position for the American people."
That doesn't mean 86% support it or that the majority support it.
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Ralph Reed's logic (Original Post)
LiberalFighter
Mar 2013
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shenmue
(38,506 posts)1. I think his numbers are off
I also think he's skeered that other people are no longer as filled with crap as he is.
FSogol
(45,481 posts)2. Whenever Ralph Reed comes on TV, you should seriously change the channel.
No one should have to endure the amount of disingenuous crap that flows out of his mouth. After seeing him on Tweety yesterday, I checked to make sure all my vaccinations were up to date.
talkingmime
(2,173 posts)3. Ralph Reed has no logic - just propaganda.
Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)4. ..and 75% of internet statistics are fabricated while being quoted...
Ralph does point out a problem with our political system. We are suspended in a vacuum between a true democracy, where the opinions of 86% of the people might actually matter, and a federated republic in which the only democracy is a democracy of the states as political entities dominated by a coporate oligarchy that have their own ideas about what is popular and how much it matters.
Written into the Constitution are important safeguards against a majority abusing the rights of minorities, which can and frequently are abused to allow minority rule through stonewalling and outright threats of instability.
So Ralph's 'point' is that a majority of states support DOMA. Whether that is true or not is arguable IMHO. I doubt that it is, but he is doing the RW dance around the issues of states rights vs individual democracy at the national level. RWers always seem to be on the side of that divide that best supports the issue du jour, and are quite arbitrary about it.
KennedyBrothers
(70 posts)5. Three words I never thought I'd see together...
"Ralph Reed's logic."
lunatica
(53,410 posts)6. His logic is every bit as good as Rush's, Sean's, Palin's and Beck's
By his logic since I live in the SF Bay Area I must be gay.