Politics Not Purity: Sunday’s Comic

obama,circular firing squad

OBAMA WORRIES ‘PURITY’ OBSESSED PROGRESSIVES CREATING ‘CIRCULAR FIRING SQUAD’ TO DESTROY THEIR OWN
By Scott Morefield

Former President Barack Obama lamented that progressives obsessed with “purity” on ideological issues could be creating a “circular firing squad” by taking aim at their allies.

The former president was speaking on Saturday at a town hall event for the Obama Foundation in Berlin. He reportedly used the Affordable Care Act as an example of compromising without achieving all of one’s goals.

“One of the things I do worry about sometimes among progressives in the United States —maybe it’s true here as well — is a certain kind of rigidity where we say, ‘Uh, I’m sorry, this is how it’s going to be,’ and then we start sometimes creating what’s called a ‘circular firing squad,’ where you start shooting at your allies because one of them has strayed from purity on the issues,” Obama said, according to The Hill. “And when that happens, typically the overall effort and movement weakens.”

To read more — OBAMA WORRIES ‘PURITY’ OBSESSED PROGRESSIVES CREATING ‘CIRCULAR FIRING SQUAD’ TO DESTROY THEIR OWN >>

[metaslider id=65385]