Death to factions! - no comments

From Dadblog:

Fast forward 250 years or so, and what do we find? Well, factionalism is now so prevalent that it's the common mode of political and, to a lesser extent, cultural debate. Which is why the whole Iraq-terrorism debate has been so corrosive, particularly on the left. Lots of left-wingers, including myself, have found themselves having to ask difficult questions of their beliefs, and come up with difficult answers. And we've also found ourselves accused, by such class-A thinkers and commentators as Peter Wilby and George Monbiot, of some kind of tribal betrayal.

But you've got to be careful. I have found, for instance, normblog an interesting corrective to what I would class as my former way of thinking. He's been clear and articulate and learned. But even he's now falling into factionalism, this time of a pro-war kind...