Decent people can and should resist a world organized around politics, and deplore the politicized state of America. Ordinary Americans don't want to live political lives and have their personal and professional relationships defined by this terrible environment. But politics is interested in us, as the saying goes. So we arm ourselves with a clear-eyed worldview, put away childish things, and never accept political pronouncements at face value. "We don't believe you" is always the default position.

- Jeff Deist