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The slippery slope - Louie Gohmert syle

As any critical thinking professor (all seven of them) would state, the slippery slope is a fallacy, where "a person asserts that some event must inevitably follow from another without any argument for the inevitability of the event in question. In most cases, there are a series of steps or gradations between one event and the one in question and no reason is given as to why the intervening steps or gradations will simply be bypassed." In other words, if one wants to attempt making an argument without worrying about logic in any sense of the word, and sounding like an idiot in the process, the slippery slope is definitely one potential route he or she could travel. One such individual who regularly attempts to make arguments by utilizing the slippery slope is Republican Texas Representative Louie Gohmert. He's gone about arguments in such a manner so frequently during his time in politics, pretty soon those seven critical thinking professors will suddenly re-term the be...