The Limitation of Political Rhetoric in Democracy

There is a certain leverage or currency that kind of political rhetoric trades on, especially in a democracy where people are free to speak before the people. On the other hand, politics is largely and inescapably emotion based. And so if the goal is to have a community that aspires to be made up of free and equal human beings who are all assumed to be able to use their reason to think about what the state is doing,. "Emotion can be problematic precisely because it doesn't involve reason given"