John Avlon Quotes

• 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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  Party, Thinking, Independence

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• Un chiflado es alguien de extrema derecha o extrema izquierda del espectro político: los partidarios profesionales, los activistas desquiciados y los teóricos paranoicos de la conspiración. Son los que siempre intentan dividirnos en lugar de unirnos.

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  Alas, Gente, Política

  "Six questions for John Avlon". Interview with John Avlon, www.economist.com. May 16, 2010.

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• Nuestra política está siendo secuestrada por un número comparativamente pequeño de personas que pretenden dominar el debate gritando más alto. Ven el mundo como una lucha urgente entre verdaderos creyentes y no creyentes. Intentan imponer estrictas pruebas de fuego e insisten en la conformidad. Demonizan la disidencia y consideran enemigos a todos los adversarios políticos. El miedo es su táctica favorita para dividir y conquistar.

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  Struggle, Small Numbers, People

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• 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.

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  Independent, Thinking, Choices

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• We cannot hope to change human nature. There will always be cranks and conspiracy theorists among us. But we can try to improve things - we don't have to accept the debasement of civil discourse or civic decline. We can take steps to ensure that the lunatic fringe remains on the fringe and stops bleeding into the base and then poisoning the mainstream

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  Trying, Bleeding, Steps

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• 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'

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  Farewell, Community, Alarms

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• When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly.

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  People, Ugly, Resentment

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• 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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  Tyrants, Important, Calling

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• 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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  Country, Reality, Self

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• One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

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  Patriotism, Tales, Partisanship

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• 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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  Needs, Debate, Term

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• 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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  Country, Crazy, America

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• The far right and the far left can be equally insane.

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  Insane, Left

  "The Rise of Political Extremism and the Decline of Decency". Interview with Jessica Rettig, www.usnews.com. April 08, 2010.

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• Demagogues always do well in economic downturns.

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  Economic, Wells, Economic Downturn

  "US warned to be wary of wingnuts". "The World Today" with Eleanor Hall, www.abc.net.au. February 17, 2010.

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• Politics is history in the present tense.

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  Tense, Present Tense

  "John Avlon and Margaret Hoover, Political pundits". Landon Lecture, www.k-state.edu. April 15, 2016.

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• 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.

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  Party, Believe, Responsibility

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• Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.

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  Opposites, Lines, Action

  John Avlon (2014). “Wingnuts: Extremism in the Age of Obama”, p.30, Beast Books

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• 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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  Stupid, Law, Play

  John Avlon (2014). “Wingnuts: Extremism in the Age of Obama”, p.59, Beast Books

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• Terrorism is always one bad day away from being issue No. 1.

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  Bad Day, Issues, Terrorism

  "Savor this moment, in the name of the 3,000". edition.cnn.com. May 2, 2011.

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• The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.

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  Smart, Anger, Talking

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• Whats different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. Its all part of the suffocating spin cycle were in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base.

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  Media, Talking, Play

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• 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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  Partido, Medios, Dos

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• Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.

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  Radio, Resentment, Conflict

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• 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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  Party, President, Problem

  "The Ugly Party vs. the Grown-Up Party". www.washingtonpost.com. June 30, 2010.

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