Most people on the right have no problem understanding people on the left because many, if not most, were on the left themselves when they were younger. But many, if not most, people on the left find it inexplicable how any decent and intelligent person could be on the right.
— Thomas Sowell, Some random thoughts on the right, the left, Mad and more (2008)
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