Letter: Columnist swayed by feelings, not by discourse
(02/21/03 5:00am)
What was Greg Bloom hoping to achieve in his Tuesday column? Never before have I read an argument so self-defeating as to actually bolster the case for the opposition. Bloom's curiosity about Saturday's Raleigh protest is understandable, his objective approach admirable but his conversion was so irrational as to only be considered laughable. When I consider political functions, I do not equate having a good time with having a good point. Clearly Bloom does, for he entered as a skeptic and left a convert. Not due to any rational argument, mind you, but due solely to the seductive powers of the mob. This is how people join cults.