Getting honest (is the opposite of twisting arms)

"At the same time, one problem with political discourse in our age is that in the heat of debate, we too easily suspend a disinterested search for the truth and advance a more narrow, partisan aim. That leads to hypocrisy and double standards.

Very few of us are completely free of such things. We view the world through a tinted lens. But we ought to at least aspire to intellectual integrity and uphold as models those who embody it."

Be nice, one day, when this is the norm. And not the exception.

Until that day, Lord Acton has the last word.

And that will be true until the rest of us get honest with ourselves. And then, perhaps, with everyone else.