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Originally Posted by Wooster
I really don't like ideological grounds for any decision making, which unfortnately council seems to be heading toward. Ideology, truly does blind people to making the decision based on its true merit to practically solve a problem or improve people's quality of life.
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Which is why I used a small "l" when saying liberal, as opposed to Liberal, the idealogical swear-word. Can't believe open-mindedness is considered a defect, but as you say, ideology (and tribalism) blinds people.
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PGIB (McIver) and their ilk want to try and institutionalize this split on council and I really, really hate that idea.
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Welcome to Bush's legacy. EVERYTHING is "us vs them", "you're with us or against us". We can't possibly have rational discourse, it's all about splitting people on emotional lines and forcing everyone to stand on one side or the other.
As is clearly evidenced by the combined epithet "liberal/socialist". Makes me wonder how many people are incapable of simply parroting some talking point they've heard from someone on "their side" - as opposed to actually understanding anything about what they're talking about.
Ah well, such is the current state of politic.