I agree for the most part but some of them really are dumb. It's power, the limelight, and a ego boost that some of them crave and thus are easily manipulated.

I agree for the most part but some of them really are dumb. It's power, the limelight, and a ego boost that some of them crave and thus are easily manipulated. Definitely, though, it's true that they make bad arguments because it gets them to their goal. It's not because they don't know that the argument is bad, it's because they know the viewing public largely doesn't know this.