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I think what’s happened is, that the left wing has really withdrawn and pulled away from the umbrella of classical liberal values that have undergirded our society since our founding. And within the family we’ve had two ways of resolving disputes, one is discussion the dialectic, the market place of ideas, trying to arrive at the truth, we had an idea that there was some truth to arrive at. And then if we couldn’t reach an agreement, a vote. And that’s how we operated. Nowadays the left has essentially withdrawn from this model and really represents Rousseauian, revolutionary party that believes in tearing down the system. That what’s wrong about America today all has to do with the institutions we have, and we have to tear them down. And they’re interested in complete political victory, they’re not interested in compromise, they’re not interested in dialectic exchange of views, they’re interested in total victory. It’s a secular religion, it’s a substitute for a religion, they view their political opponents as evil, because we stand in the way of their progressive utopia that they’re trying to reach. That’s what gives the intensity to the partisan feelings that people feel today. Because for them this pilgrimage we all are on, is a political pilgrimage. Everything is reduced to politics. For people who don’t have that perspective, politics is important, but it’s not the whole purpose of life.