Great David Brooks quote

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Bestseller list dominated by liberals
Tuesday, October 7, 2003 Posted: 2:23 PM EDT (1823 GMT)

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Bookstore display tables give the distinct impression there is a lot of lying going on in America these days, with President George W. Bush and his top advisers portrayed as the main culprits.
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New York Times columnist David Brooks said the partisan books on Clinton and Bush marked a shift in America to the "presidency wars" from "culture wars" of preceding decades.

"To the warrior, politics is no longer a clash of value systems, each of which is in some way valid. It's not a competition between basically well-intentioned people who see the world differently," Brooks said in a September 30 column. "It's not even a conflict of interests. Instead, it's the Florida post-election fight over and over, a brutal struggle for office in which each side believes the other is behaving despicably."

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This really nails what is wrong with American politics today.

Both sides are unable to see their opposition as anything but stupid, selfish, misinformed, and/or evil.

Of course, our opposition is evil:



See?