Being "Right" while Being Wrong (from the blog)

[Selwynn]

Being "Right" while Being Wrong
A while back I felt like I learned a very important life lesson in my personal life: being right is not necessarily synonymous with doing the right thing.

It is a lesson that I wish Left America could learn. Too many times my progessive friends and collegues will bitterly critcize neo-conservatives for how they act towards those they disagree with, while excusing identical behavior from our own camp. Time and time again I encounter this double standard where progressives lash out with great disgust and rancor against conservatives who speak hatefully or advocate viscious or outlandish things, and then say and do things just as hateful or outlandish.

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Why does this hypocrisys exist on all sides? If progessive ideas are truly better and just, shouldn't progessives reflect a genuinely different attitude and act in radically different ways? Why then does the left and the right so frequently act exactly alike in terms of attitude and actions?

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Headings in essay:
The Polarization of the Nation
The Myth that Civility Equals Passivity
The Lack of Ideological Vision
Susbstiting "Winning" with "Governing"

Read the whole thing here:
http://selwynn.blog-city.com/