[Noughmad]

"X can seem sensible and logical if you ignore sense and logic and believe your emotions instead".

Yes, that's true for everything, and it is exactly what believing your emotions over facts means.

[lewhoo]

But that's just ad absurdum considering we don't have straight answers when it comes to socio-political issues.

[ryanklee]

It's absolutely straightforward to uphold Democratic principles over Fascistic enterprises. People who get this wrong are simply wrong, and it's likely emotional and psychological forces that got them there, not rational, historiographic, or empirical ones.

The current headwinds are a result of ill-equiped individuals being manipulated by other ill-equiped individuals.

[throwaway171223]

We do though,

We've had them since the first time a group of farming monkeys decided to post day/night guards on the granary.

Those posts have been filled around the clock ever since.

To my knowledge the first ones to formalize this were Locke, Hobbes and Rousseau but, in all cases, very little has changed since.

To me, that's as straight an answer as you're ever going to get