Quotes by John Avlon

John Avlon

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.

People

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Wings

But in his Farewell Address, George Washington made it clear that he perceived no greater threat to the American experiment than a partisan demagogue who ‘agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against the other’

Alarms

Community

Farewell

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

America

Country

Crazy

Demagogues always do well in economic downturns.

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Economic Downturn

Wells

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.

Independence

Party

Thinking

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.

Law

Play

Stupid

I believe that the far-right and the far-left can be equally insane – but there’s no question that in the first years of the Obama administration, the far-right has been far crazier. In part, this comes from parties being out of power – without the responsibility of governing to ground them, the activists and the ideologues take over.

Believe

Party

Responsibility

I’m an independent. I’m a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their lives, and yet politics is the last place that they are told that they should be satisfied with a choice between brand A and brand B. It doesn’t fit the way they think. It doesn’t fit the way they live.

Choices

Independent

Thinking

If you only take offense when the president of your party is compared to Hitler, then you’re part of the problem.

Party

President

Problem

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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Important

Tyrants

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Crazy

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Economic

Economic Downturn

Farewell

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Independent

Insane

Issues

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Left

Lines

Media

Needs

Opposites

Partisanship

Party

Patriotism

People

Play

Political

Present Tense

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Problem

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Responsibility

Self

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Smart

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Quotes by John Avlon

John Avlon

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.

But in his Farewell Address, George Washington made it clear that he perceived no greater threat to the American experiment than a partisan demagogue who ‘agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against the other’

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

Demagogues always do well in economic downturns.

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.

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.

If you only take offense when the president of your party is compared to Hitler, then you’re part of the problem.

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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