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The Cato Institute (Facebook)
Publication Date:
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
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new media post
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New Media
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featured
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The Cato Institute authored a viral Facebook post which received 2,110 likes and 1,116 shares: ""Politics is nothing to be proud of. We shouldn’t believe in it, shouldn’t get excited about it. Shouldn’t think it’s noble or, worse, fun. On a good day, politics is a silly game...a waste of countless hours and countless minds...On a bad day, it’s livelihoods and sometimes lives destroyed. It’s violence and ignorance and fear...Politics is, at best, a blunt instrument, though perhaps an occasionally necessary one. But its use has costs, including...degradation of our character. We should resort to politics only when we have no other options, and then only reluctantly...In short, politics makes us worse. http://bit.ly/1HOwW1G "