re: #463 MandyManners

Mandy, the book is excellent, and progressives are capable of being good, honest, decent people that add to the national discourse.

My friend Quintin Mecke, for example, is a tireless worker in San Francisco who makes sure that the homeless are treated as more than a political coin to be tossed around. He spends his time holding government accountable for its promises, something I’d think conservatives would agree is a good thing.

It is foolishness itself to believe that simply because one has certain political values that one can’t add honestly to our understanding of a subject. And it’s the more deeply foolish because exactly the same attitude can be turned on you, in order to reject what you say.

Instead of attacking people because of their position on a non-existent political spectrum, addressing their actual ideas and works would be good.