How to Talk to A Wingnut Part 2

Here are some further examples for a different belief statement. Remeber, the key is to chain several of these patterns together. You will likely find that some beliefs fall rapidly, and you will discover core beliefs beneath them.

Belief Statement:
Liberal War protestors cause our troop morale to drop.

(I have seen this statement (and several variations) used many times in blogs and in the press.)

Which liberal war protestors? All of them?

Does protesting the war lower the morale for every military member? How do you know which ones are affected? Do you know of any military members who are not bothered by war protestors?

War protesters don't lower troop morale, the poor planning by the leadership lowers morale.

War protesting on the scale we see today is caused by the amount of festering dissent in society as a whole, and our military members are a part of that society. In fact, there are members of the military who have spoken out against the war.

I think it is obvious the reason you say that is you do not want to deal with the real problem:the war is not going well and the whole justification for the war has been a lie.

Isn't one of America's great strengths our freedom? Do you feel that it is acceptable to try to limit one of our core freedoms, the freedom of speech, because of a war?

Is it ever accptable to protest a war, or is it always wrong?

So if you think war protesting is hurting troop morale, and therefore weaking our national security, do you think we should use troops on war protestors?

If you believe that the military if fighting to protect our freedom, why are you against some people acting on that freedom to speak out aginst the war.