Top 18 John Avlon Quotes
#1. What might be good for ratings can be bad for the country. The hard-core partisans are self-segregating themselves into separate political realities. But the majority of Americans are starting to wake up to the game.
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#2. Demagogues always do well in economic downturns.
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#3. Godwin's law states that the longer any online debate goes on, the likelier it is that someone will play the Nazi card. It's the rhetorical equivalent of going nuclear and stupid at the same time.
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#4. If you only take offense when the president of your party is compared to Hitler, then you're part of the problem.
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#5. Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.
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#6. First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their independence, the more the parties will have to compete for their votes using reason rather than the hateful appeals.
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#7. The far-right and far-left can be equally insane.
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#8. Politics is history in the present tense.
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#9. It's important to remember that Bush Derangement Syndrome on the left - comparing him to Hitler, calling him a terrorist and a tyrant - preceded Obama Derangement Syndrome on the right.
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#10. A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us.
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#11. Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.
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#12. By pumping up hyper-partisanship, our country (America) is playing with forces that can easily get out of control. We are giving purpose and cover - and sometimes a sense of purpose - to the crazy among us. We are encouraging a culture of extremism
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#13. When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly.
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#14. One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.
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#15. The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it.
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#16. We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves.
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#17. The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.
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#18. Terrorism is always one bad day away from being issue No. 1.
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