This July 29 letter to the editors of the Ventura County (California) Star contains a significant logical fallacy. Do you see it?
Bumper-sticker rage
Knowing the hazards of “road rage,” I recently experienced “parking-lot rage” when confronted by a bumper sticker that read: “I’m a Republican. Not everybody can be on welfare!”
For the person on whose vehicle that appeared: I’m a socially liberal Democrat who’s not spent a single second on welfare.
For those of you on the right whose arch-conservative stance has been allowed to dictate county and city government, nestled as they are in the bosom of the Ronald Reagan Library, who think that bumper stickers are cute and funny and want to know where you can get yours, I proudly pay my taxes, something your respected tea-party people pout about and demonstrate against. How dare you portray me a deadbeat!
I proudly served in the U.S. military, something your recent president and vice president disdained. How dare you question my commitment to this country with your absolutely ignorant bumper stickers! How dare you!
— Bob Jackson, Simi Valley
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