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The Case for Civility: And Why Our Future Depends on It QUOTES

1 " Each side, hypocritical enough to pretend that it lives up to its own hype, is equally insistent that the other side’s worst is truly all that it is. American political advertising is sinking slowly toward a level worthy of Soviet propaganda. "

― Os Guinness , The Case for Civility: And Why Our Future Depends on It

2 " Name-calling, insult, ridicule, guilt by association, caricature, innuendo, accusation, denunciation, negative ads, and deceptive and manipulative videos have replaced deliberation and debate. Neither side talks to the other side, only about them; and there is no pretence of democratic engagement, let alone a serious effort at persuasion. "

― Os Guinness , The Case for Civility: And Why Our Future Depends on It

3 " One overall conclusion is plain: under the weight of the combined impact of exploding pluralism, the expansion of the state, and emerging separationism, the early American settlement, so brilliantly described by Tocqueville, is gone, and gone for good. "

― Os Guinness , The Case for Civility: And Why Our Future Depends on It