Birch fallacy is the assumption that you can infer subjective intention from objective consequence: we lost China to the Communists, therefore the Pr… - William F. Buckley Jr.

For people who like that sort of thing, that's the sort of thing they like.

A good debater is not necessarily an effective vote-getter: you can find a hole in your opponent's argument through which you could drive a coach and four ringing jingle bells all the way, and thrill at the crystallization of a truth wrung out from a bloody dialogue - which, however, may warm only you and your muse, while the smiling paralogist has in the meantime made votes by the tens of thousands.

Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.