The Myth of Left and Right Quotes

“Being a philosopher is noble, but being a tribal lemming is not and so, naturally, tribal lemmings like to tell the philosophical stories of ideological essentialism to justify their herd-following actions.”
― Verlan Lewis, The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America

“Our thesis is simply this: left–right ideologies are bundles of unrelated political positions connected by nothing other than a group. A conservative or liberal is not someone who has a conservative or liberal philosophy, but someone who belongs to the conservative or liberal tribe. This means that ideologies do not define tribes, tribes define ideologies; ideology is not about what (worldviews), it is about who (groups); there is no liberalism or conservatism, only liberals and conservatives; and the political spectrum does not model an essential value, but only tribes and what they stand for at a specific time and place.8 Ultimately,”
― Verlan Lewis, The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America