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  • All political movements are like this: we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There’s oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.

Monday, 17 September 2018 / Published in Ambition & Fame, Anti-Government, Bipartisanship & Compromise, Civil Disobedience, Civility, Communication & Rhetoric, Community, Congress & Legislation, Elections & Campaigning, Ethics, Free Speech, Generations, Human Nature, Ideology, Partisanship, Political Aspirations, Political Parties, Political Responsibilities, Politics, Public Opinion & Polls, Reality, Strategy, Tea Party, Third Parties, Unity, Voting

All political movements are like this: we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.


Doris Lessing, Salon, Nov 11, 1997

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