Politics in America is typically framed, discussed, and understood through the binary of Republican and Democrat, while argument in America is typically framed, discussed, and understood within a binary, by having a debate over an issue with two sides, and by having two ways to argue, either for or against; however, understanding arguments and politics through such binaries are problematic and create limits how issues, advertisements, argumentation, and rhetorics are understood.
Our determination to pursue truth by setting up a fight between two sides leads us to believe that every issue has two sides—no more, no less: If both sides are given a forum to confront each other, all the relevant information will emerge, and the best case will be made for each side. But opposition does not lead to truth when an issue is not composed of two opposing sides but is a crystal of many sides. (Tannen, 1998, p. 10).
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