The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
Doubt grows with knowledge.
Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.
The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.
Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.
In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt.
Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.
Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.
People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.
The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.
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