Nah this is ineffective rhetoric. You're trying to fight feelings with facts.
You gotta use rhetorical tactics to change an opinion such as:
Our politicians are better
Note that this says nothing about the actual quality, only that they aren't quite as bad. There is still a lot of room to bring opinion of them down.
"oh sure, they don't leave quite as big a blood trail as say Hilary Clinton, but they're still pretty piss poor, did you see that awful thing where they..." and then show them the evidence.
I've agreed with their point because it's ultimately inconsequential and has an easy opening to get them to agree with my broader point.
Nah this is ineffective rhetoric. You're trying to fight feelings with facts.
You gotta use rhetorical tactics to change an opinion such as:
Note that this says nothing about the actual quality, only that they aren't quite as bad. There is still a lot of room to bring opinion of them down.
"oh sure, they don't leave quite as big a blood trail as say Hilary Clinton, but they're still pretty piss poor, did you see that awful thing where they..." and then show them the evidence.
I've agreed with their point because it's ultimately inconsequential and has an easy opening to get them to agree with my broader point.