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"In America today you would say that the clans have polarized, the villages have been decimated and the tribes have become weaponized." This is an interesting
by pwaivers 9y ago
"In America today you would say that the clans have polarized, the villages have been decimated and the tribes have become weaponized."
This is an interesting statement, but doesn't really have any facts backing it.
- WhompingWindows 9y agoI agree that the article is oddly bifurcated. It starts with numerous statistics listed out in a laundry-list fashion. Then it proceeds into unfounded speculation with no statistical backing. The traditional and more effective argumentative approach is to make a Claim, then provide Evidence to support it, and Reasoning to tie them together logically. Here, the author starts with heaps of evidence, then moves into unrelated claims/reasoning. Lack luster writing, which I have come to expect from David Brooks, a writer who is so out of touch with the currents of mainstream America that he is forced to be some strawman Republican writing on a left-leaning NYC newspaper who few from either side agree with. Time to replace him with a more skillful and adept opinion columnist.