A Cry from the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land

by P.J. O'Rourke

As Orwell goes on to say: As soon as fear, hatred, jealousy and power worship are involved, the sense of reality becomes unhinged . . . the

sense of right and wrong becomes unhinged also. There is no crime, absolutely none, that cannot be condoned when “our” side commits it . . . one cannot feel that it is wrong, Loyalty is involved, and so pity ceases to function.