Column: Loud and privileged voices are damaging the credibility of the left
It’s difficult to make criticisms of those who are on the same moral side as we are. We are group-oriented creatures, bound to those who we feel are trustworthy and those who fight for our causes. Exacerbated by a hostile political climate that forces movements to radical places on the political spectrum, our own polarization often gets the best of us, causing us to view all progressive ideology as good and all conservative ideology as bad, or vice versa.